Church Services Canceled

CHRIS ELLERY

March 16, 2020

You have time to walk now

along the river

with a congregation of geese

unperturbed

by the drizzle and fog

CHRIS ELLERY is author of five poetry collections, most recently Canticles of the Body. He has received the X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction, the Dora and Alexander Raynes Prize for Poetry, and the Betsy Colquitt Award. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he teaches at Angelo State University.