church


body,         go reverently

                            submerged

in love

        little human cathedral

                            (all this)

to be wholly occupied

                    with the singing—


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Carlene Kucharczyk's first book Strange Hymn is the winner of the Juniper Prize for a debut collection of poems and comes out from the University of Massachusetts Press in April, 2025. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and works at Dartmouth. She lives in Vermont.