~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Dave Malone

Church Service

Christ would have liked that church.

Blue collars who didn’t have a building.

Scrambling on Thursdays to find a place

to meet come Sunday.

From school auditoriums to back yards,

the dedicated few met.

My uncle followed that troupe around

and brought me a couple of times.

I didn’t have to wear a tie or slacks;

blue jeans would do.

I don’t remember much.

Except the singing.

Just a cappella. Led by the local barber.

He had bad hair but a mean baritone.

Dave Malone holds degrees from Ottawa University and Indiana State. He is a poet and screenwriter who lives in the Missouri Ozarks, and his most recent poetry book is Bypass (Aldrich Press, 2023). He can be found online at davemalone.net or on Instagram@dave.malone.