Comfort of Togetherness – Effie Pasagiannis

I like the way we are together now—

compatriots, companions,

clandestine lovers exchanging recipes,

searching for yeast to create

 

Kneading and breaking bread

in doughy goodness,

we are shattering the silence of our fast

letting our buttered selves slip

through gloved hands

into a new kind of comforting

 

Is this why I have always loved the rain?

Pelting of glass, windowed song with

blinds open, curtains drawn

for a knowledge that we bathe in it together,

and in this knowing, this being,

a most precious stasis shared,

the NOW that is most certain and

all we will ever have

 

In this splendor

of exchanging recipes,

we exhaust the noise of all else,

we concentrate while

kneading and breaking bread—

knowing safety in the present

humming our favorite rain day tune,

watching creation rise,

breathing it in.

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Previously published in The Dillydoun Review.