Winter Table
I see your hands
at rest, still
present at the table,
present in all the worlds
we have shared.
I see
your fingers now,
relaxed and slow moving,
sculpting dry bread crumbs
into soft deft rows along
wood grains of the table,
tracing ancient circles
in the dark-stained wood
which many hopes have failed
to notice up to now. How
stubborn is the soup ring
that clings to the sides
of each dry bowl, each
story told about warm houses
and acorns planted and
new rivers in our dreams
that keep us watered and
alive, only
to be washed away again
and again with all the silent
signs. This time,
may the hands we fold
rest together
in the broken stories, in
the many places we have been, in the
music of snowfall,
the milky new silence
of communion.
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