This Old Brick Church
/About the historic brick church in Colchester (Vermont) Center built in 1838 and now undergoing restoration of its steeple.
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Always at a crossroads
this old brick church,
straddles centuries
with old-world grace.
Watching from its hilltop,
the village’s center,
observing a world
passing by, usually on
its way to somewhere else,
and yet the destination
of a few souls in search,
and souls in pain, and a
few lost ones, and even
a few playing a game
that required a stop and a
photo of this crossroads.
Watching that which
passes beneath its spire,
vanely marking changes of
direction of its times,
From gentle breezes of the
customary to gusts and squalls
of war and disease, and common
dread and uncommon courage.
Passed by all manner of traffic
in all manner of weather,
in dark and with light;
conveyed, conferred, and coiffed
as culture and technology provide.
A notch or two behind the times
until called into the now as any
thoroughbred long-striding over decades,
with rubs, from time to time
leaving marks, with all breathes
held against the chance
of a fall; but striding, still,
not still, but alive with what is
still to come through the crossroads
on the hilltop at the village center
these many years hence
and yet to come . . .
By Russell Willis
From: United States
Website: https://rewilliswrites.com