In the Fifteenth Street Meeting

The poem above was written during Sunday Worship, in August 2009, at the 15th Street Friend's Meeting House (New York City). ANNIE FINCH is author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism, most recently Among the Goddesses, Calendars, and The Body of Poetry. She is the director of Stonecoast, the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine.  Her website is at www.anniefinch.com.