It’s four AM.
A man was just
Shouting in the street.
I want it to rain
Because it’s also
Sunday. I used
To go to Mass
On Sunday.
We dropped
Money into the
Poorbox before
Everybody stood
And the priest
Approached the altar.
Marc Petersen learned to write poems by writing them, then comparing them with the work of other poets, such as Robert Lowell. Peterson is the author of the chapbook This Is My Brother Talking.