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"Sunday in Seconds", a poem by Tim Suermondt
Church half empty,
but the birds are on the roof,
in droves, giving their own sermon.
A couple at the street corner,
each one holding a book.
The man in need of a victory
nurses a beer at the sports bar,
hoping his team can help save him.
An activist hands out flyers
as if nothing in the world matters more.
The poet battles with a truculent line,
goes to escape in the park,
the muse by his side all day, all day.
AuthorTim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems A Doughnut And The Great Beauty Of The World came out in 2023 from MadHat Press. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, Offcourse, Poet Lore and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.