This week's poem comes from Epiphany member Kathy Kramer:
There will be bread
On Thursday the new priest
will bring me communion
I haven’t met her yet for I am now
among the Church’s homebound
I worry a little Will my house
be clean enough the beds made
Can I stand long enough
to brew a pot of tea
There are shortbread cookies and
I can put those out on a pretty plate
And some nuts I can pour
into a little bowl Should I snip
the grape stems into sprigs
each with 4 or 5 purple globes
The priest will bring wine of course
a tiny bit poured into a tiny chalice
which she will take with reverence
from the kit she carries on home visits
And there will be bread the small
moon-like wafer that melts on the tongue
How I wish I could offer the bread
I used to bake fragrant and warm
and ask the priest to bless it break it
give it as we are blessed broken
and given to each other to the world
to God which are after all
part of the same thing
Kathy Kramer
March 2023
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