Chapel of Ease, by T.E. Wilderson

Chapel of Ease, by Sam Doyle (USA), 1982-1984. Photo by T.E. Wilderson.

Chapel of Ease

Roof gaping wide
Gulping azure sky
Once raised by the warp and weft
Of sermon and hymn 

Hear the caw
Of the crow
Flown from the nest in the eaves

Crumbs of tombstones
Splayed out back
Of the dearly beloved, the damned
And the doomed

Can you hear the
Buckling, bowing stucco walls
Shout Hallelujah!

T.E. Wilderson

T. E. Wilderson is a Minneapolis-based writer, who also works as a graphic designer and copyeditor. Once a PEN/Rosenthal Fellowship finalist, Wilderson's short fiction has appeared in The Opiate magazine, and is forthcoming in The Roanoke Review. Currently a student in Spalding University's MFA writing program, Wilderson is a student editor for The Louisville Review. Wilderson is at work on a short story collection and a novel.