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.