“The Evangelist” at Poetry Pause
Katherine Koller’s award-winning poem, “The Evangelist,” appears online at Poetry Pause, the daily poem offering of the League of Canadian Poets.
“The Evangelist” by Katherine Koller
March 10, 2026
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “The Evangelist” by Katherine Koller.
The Evangelist
By Katherine Koller
he slept on a metal bench in the sun
feet socked at the heels, toes exposed
face tucked in serene comfort
like the bent-headed contemplation
of the gilded copper medieval
miniature of Mark
writing gospels of loaves and fishes
and needle’s eyes and riches
with half-bared feet
when his eyes opened and
he smiled at me holding
your ninety-three-year-old arm
hurrying away
from what the evangelist might say
in the golden light of the last day of summer
Copyright © Katherine Koller
Previously published in Fire from the Heart, 2025.
Books by Katherine Koller are Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays, Art Lessons, a novel, and two story collections, Winning Chance and Earthen. Her poetry has appeared in Prairie Journal, NorthWord, Happiness Reflected, Funicular, The Lupine Review, Fire from the Heart and online at Poetry Pause. “The Evangelist” was the Fortuna’s Choice winner in the 2025 Muriel’s Journey Prize.