![]() ![]() ![]() Hectoring large-scale verses, and pronounce Move forward, run my hand around the font.įrom where I stand, the roof looks almost new––Ĭleaned or restored? Someone would know: I don't. Up at the holy end the small neat organ īrewed God knows how long. I step inside, letting the door thud shut.Īnother church: matting, seats, and stone,Īnd little books sprawlings of flowers, cutįor Sunday, brownish now some brass and stuff Thus, I thought of Larkin’s masterpiece.Ĭhurch Going Once I am sure there's nothing going on Hard times came upon Saint Michael’s, its appearance neglected, a bit of a shambles. After WWII, many parishioners moved to the suburbs and middling-tall office buildings began their dwarfing ascent. Saint Michael’s as I recall, Catholic, a church that appeared to have had its heyday in the late 19 th-to-mid-century last. A half-hour to squander, I let curiosity take me. Come A Little Bit Closer Now Baby is Gray Jacobik’s regular column dedicated to the practice of close reading.Ī few weeks ago, while visiting Washington, D.C., I did what Philip Larkin’s speaker does in “Church Going” –– popped in on a church that showed up mid-block on a street I happened down. ![]()
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