Pass the bread and wine

 ‘pass the bread and wine’ Trgates,8/3/2026

talking with the dead

no big deal,

every day the living say hello,

not upset by those too good for a visit,

he’d say “let the dead bury the dead.”

those marginalizing

folks not considered worth their time

have plenty of it,

the dead are ahead of their headstones.

talking with the living

that’s another story,

like leprosy “unclean!” souls

if dared to walk in their Golgothas

Emmaus will see their faces,

beholding what was never hidden to one.

Anesti, Axios!

heard and seen

by those with

“eyes and ears,”

Plato’s Logos has no need of

equivocation or a back patting,

or an interpreter.

sitting at each other’s table

we pass the bread and wine,

having no need to be hurried.