Graduation

Finally.  Finally.  I have graduated to the pew.  It took a full six years... but here I am.  Finally.  I do not need to do a thing to justify my pew-sitting.  No excuses necessary or called for.  Amazing, really.  Stunning.

I have graduated

To the pew.

It took me long enough.

Today at coffee hour

I straight-pinned green paper wads

As leaves

To brown styrofoam trees

For summer Vacation Bible School.

My beloved and I

Sat in the library

During the third service,

Waved to the people

Who slipped through the side door

Late.

We noted the man who filched the cream

From the kitcheonette refrigerator;

Perused the Sunday paper.

I have graduated to the pew,

The library,

To the edges

Of coffee hour.

I am no longer incognito clergy.

I am a regular.

I have graduated

Fully

Simply

To the pew.