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POETRY

“Say It’s More than Symbol,” read by Lee S. Kohman.

Say It’s More than Symbol

A Practicing Protestant Yearns for the Sacraments

Holy Communion—
blessed boon
for the breaking

and broken,
for the hungering
for every tongue longing
to touch and

 

taste

 

to feel
even for a fleeting moment
the physicality of unseen union—

 

the imperceptible

 

plated, then placed
under fleshy
palate roofs.

 

Christ clothed in crust of skin,
meet me

 

in my mouth.

 

Slake me by divine wine;
nourish the ache

gnawing to know
beyond symbol or creed:

Your body present.
Your life poured into me.

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American poet Lee S. Kohman sojourns in Nairobi, Kenya with her husband and three daughters. When not homeschooling her girls, Lee writes—seeking to chisel in time moments and musings that otherwise flit and fly away like the butterflies and birds she admires from her window.

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Artwork: Christ the Saviour by Juan de Juanes. Public Domain.