An Abiding Place--By Pat Durmon--United States

An Abiding Place

on this Sabbath Day
I search for love lavished
within walls where stained glass
reigns high, and there
I listen hard
for broken bread 
and poured-out wine

while

a white-haired old man
faces a sermon
and droops his head
as if inviting a bright light
to take him over
like wafting gardenias
make sure nothing else
exists

Pat Durmon is the author of Blind Curves (2007) and Lights and Shadows in a Nursing Home, (2013.)  Poems have been published by Rattle, Main Street Rag, Poetry East, Cyclamens and Blades, Between the Lines, Lucidity and other journals.  She is retired from mental health counseling and leads a group called Searching for Light.   Ms. Durmon lives in the Ozark Mountains.