Roger Pfingston

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A Week of Sundays

Deaf and nearly blind,
his mother, 92,
asks each day if it's
Sunday in the nursing
home, the day she
most preferred in her
former life, and each
day they tell her yes,
yes, and yes again,
that she might rest
in her mind's church.

A retired teacher of English and photography, Roger Pfingston is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards. Poems have appeared in recent issues of Poet Lore, American Journal of Poetry, Hamilton Stone Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal and Poetry East. New poems will appear in the fall issue of I-70 Review. A chapbook, A Day Marked for Telling, is available from Finishing Line Press.