Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

Miracle #1; Miracle #2

Miracle #1

First, it was water: 
a marriage festival, 
a mother 
asking a favor 
from her son 
And it came: 
wine. 

Later, 
another feast, 
thirty pieces of silver, 
a tree 
in the shape of a cross: 
a body. 
Nothing is holy 
without first being mistaken 
as ordinary. 

Miracle #2 

They sang hymns 
before he entered Gethsemane. 

In a small room 
belonging to another man, 

He broke his own body 
and blessed it,

gave it to twelve men he loved 
and they were filled. 

The breaking and the eating: 
what a poor man does 

with his own sorrows 
to understand his Lord.