"Communion"
I wrote "Communion" on the morning of Monday, February 2, 2026. The long, tragic month of January was over, but the situation in Minnesota had not gotten much better. I typed up the poem, saved it as a jpeg, and posted in on Facebook, shared with Friends only. One of my friends, a local Lutheran pastor, asked for permission to share it. I gave her permission to copy and share the photo, and extended that permission to anyone who wanted to share the poem, as long as I was credited as the author. By the end of that week, the poem had been shared thousands of times. It was being read at church services and shared on social media. It was read at a leadership meeting of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in St. Louis, and at a meeting of the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was being shared by Christians of many denominations, by Catholics and Protestants. Within two weeks, the poem had appeared on the blog of a Uniting Church pastor in Au...
