Altar/Table

"...to remember and to be / re-made as a member..."

Photo by Sebbi Strauch on Unsplash

To see his limp wrists
and delicate fingers
raising the elements
as if they are just as
venerable as those hands,
to hear the words
of consecration adorned
with a soft sibilance—
to see my own body
in that venerable body
dressed in flowing fabric,
with something to offer,
to remember and to be
re-made as a member,
to see him setting table,
mixing the drinks and
washing all the dishes.