Three Women in Church

BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 39 | Issue 3 Article 18 7-1-2000 Three Women in Church Ken Haubrock Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Haubrock, Ken (2000) "Three Women in Church," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 39 : Iss. 3 , Article 18. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol39/iss3/18 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact , . Haubrock: Three Women in Church three women in church two teenage girls sit side by side behind them an older woman hands age spotted and wrinkled slowly smoothes the long soft hair of one girl long fingered slow caresses sweat ered shoulder the girl rests her head on her friends sweatered the older woman strokes the finely intertwined hair soon she has braided the strands of the girls hair together wrapped around and around in and out tightly fitted all in the brightly lit hardwood pewed dewed stone walled chapel ken haubrock this poem won first place in the BYU studies 1999 999 poetry contest Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2000 1  (...truncated)