by Wesley Sims

Silence hangs over the cemetery
adjacent to the little country church,
a Sunday morning holy pause,
as if the dead wait in reverent
attention for Reverend Jim 
to begin preaching or Irvin
to begin playing the piano 
or Grandma to start praying
or Dad to lead the congregation
in the stirring classic hymn,
When the Saints Go Marching In.

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Wesley Sims has published three chapbooks of poetry: When Night Comes, 2013; Taste of Change, 2019; and A Pocketful of Little Poems, 2020. He has had poems nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in Artemis Journal, Connecticut Review, G.W. Review, Liquid Imagination, Plum Tree Tavern, Quill and Parchment, Poem, Poetry Quarterly, Time of Singing, Bewildering Stories, and numerous others.