Easter at the Nursing Home

Contributor: Donal Mahoney

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When bread
is this good
a morsel

will suffice
and when wine
is this good

a sip is enough
for the wraiths
and specters

coming toward
the altar now
on crutches

walkers
in wheel chairs
celebrating

the last Easter
some of them
will know

as they await
a resurrection
of their own.


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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.