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                         Paul Zimmer (1934-)

                  The Day Zimmer Lost Religion

First Line:   The first Sunday I missed Mass on purpose

 

The above poem first appeared in the Spring 1970 issue of Poetry Northwest. As such, it is protected by copyright and can not be printed out or stored in any permanent form without permission of the copyright holder. It also appears in:
  • Zimmer, Paul. Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2007.
  • Best Poems of 1970: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, 1971. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1971.