Late One Evening
Ahrend Torrey
beneath the
humming
prayer of
streetlight,
it was so
satisfying
to watch
him kneel
at the altar
of Bayou
St. John—
a homeless
man
with a holy
grocery bag
filled
with broken
beads,
and a smile
as he jumped
in
swimming,
chatting
with angels
I could not
see.
Ahrend Torrey is a poet and painter. He is a creative writing graduate from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. When he is not writing or teaching English in New Orleans, he enjoys the simpler things in life, like walking around Bayou St. John with his partner, Jonathan, and their two rat terriers Dichter and Dova.