Tuesday, January 31, 2012

REAL COMMUNION

Today, bread will just be bread,
nothing more, no symbolic flight;
there will be texture on  the tongue,
the hard edge of a bite
and the brief, convulsive claim
of swallowing.

Today, wine will just be wine,
nothing more, no hint of a liquid
sacrificial force; there will be rich
fruit notes and languid subtle warmth;
surrender realized
physically.

2 comments:

  1. There's plenty of poetry left in you, old chap.
    Beautifully weighted through two verses.

    Is this Postmodern Detransubstantiationism?

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  2. Thanks Dave. Maybe a little deconstructed transubstantiation.

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