Every meal is Communion

Every meal is Communion
I learn this
As I sit with friends
Over coffee
Over sweet rolls
It doesn'r have to be
Extensive
Just a bite
Just a sip
Just a word
Every meal is Communion
And then
We are fed.

We women

We come in waves
We women
First a drop of water
Then more drops
Until no one notices
We were
Never there.
We come in waves
We women
Then an ocean
Of course
We have always
Been here
Always
Always
Always
Waves on the ocean
We women.

Saturday is a day to begin again

Last night
I lay in bed
Perused the list
In my head
For the morning.
What should I do
No
What must I do
No
What do I really really want
To do
In the light of morning
After
I share yogurt
With the cat
After
I make coffee.
Then I think
It's Saturday
After all
It will then be time
To begin again.

Cyril and Methodius

In church
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Replace the mythical Valentine
The one who runs
With unicorns
Imaginary hearts
On their horns.
He is so much more
Whimsical
Than the brothers
Who founded
Old Church Slavonic
The language
So few speak.

One more stumble

One more stumble
Yet here I am
Still upright
I can teach
The best of them
The worst of them
How to rise up.
Here we are
Holding each other up
Kin.
Kin.
Kin.
One more stumble
Yet here we are.
Upright.

When things malfunction

When things malfunction
There may be mechanical reasons
Or not
Sometimes
It's easily resolvable
All it takes
Is a trip
To the Apple store
Sometimes not.

Purple hat

When grief takes your hand
Puts a warm purple hat
On your head
Warm purple scarf
Around your neck
Makes sure you don't
Slip and fall
Because of course
Grief
Has assured
Your boots
Have grips
And grief
Has also assured
You have warm purple gloves
So your fingers
Don't
Get
Cold.