FAITH\u27S LATE PROCESSION: POEMS is a collection of poetry written and/or revised during my time at Missouri State University. The collection focuses on the use of Midrash as a means of approaching poetry, but the subject matter is not limited to working from biblical texts. The poems in this collection discuss the poet\u27s ongoing struggle with faith; his father\u27s gay identity; the difficulties of watching, as a child, his father worsen over time with advancing stages of schizophrenia, and the duality of growing up in urban St. Louis, while spending summers on his father\u27s farm in upper east Tennessee. The poems are written in free verse. KEYWORDS: poetry, faith, Appalachia, father, queer identity, family, free vers