Religious and spiritual poem describing fictional people and their reasons for going to Church. This poem, by "a Parish Poet" Peter Menkin, is set at Easter time and talks of the seasonal event. The poet, an Oblate of Immaculate Heart Hermitage (Camaldoli), Big Sur, California attends Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California where the imaginary, descriptive poetic recitation takes place. The work was favorite of a Priest friend, who felt it a warm statement on Church living.

These words appear in the poem:

When I ask someone
why do you go to Church,
they say,
âTo see them light candles,â
or
âGo forward during the hymn,
for the music,â
or
âEaster lilies.â

These white flowers, delicate,
adorn the front of the
Church where we will go
for communion,
stepping among lovely
waiting ones present
and gone
also in the promise
of resurrection.

Note that a text of the work appears on the personal website "Hello World" located at http://www.petermenkin.com . Photographs of the Holy Land (Isreal), also appear on the website, which is in color. This poem is in the section on Easter, the Christian website made up of 62 pages.

Workshoped on The Atlantic Monthly Writers Workshop some years ago, which is no longer extand, a comment by a mainland Chinese poet on the work says:

"Peter,
The lilies! I can not fathom what
they meant to you,
but together with blood and body,
they seem to be mean something.
Thanks for your poem.
Fei"

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