Ravishing Fingers

The impoverished come

To the shelter for food

And when it is sparse

It is not unacceptable

Amongst them

To share from one loaf

For I have watched this.

Some say,

“They must pull back from the table

Because they have not laboured.”

Perhaps this is truth

But alive in the moment

I ask,

“What harder labour

Than to pluck pieces of bread

From a loaf

Full of ravishing fingers?”

©--Christina Cowling