“That long fall,
when the voices stopped
in the tweed mouth
of his radio, and sermons
stood behind the door
of his study in files
no one would ever again inspect….’’
— “The Minister’s Death,’’ by Wesley McNair (born 1941), American poet, writer, editor and professor. He lives in Mercer, Maine.
The Mercer Union Meetinghouse, a historic church in the center of town, which is in the interior of The Pine Tree State.
