Food for Risen Bodies – II

On that final night, his meal was formal:

lamb with bitter leaves of endive, chervil,

bread with olive oil and jars of wine.

Now on Tiberias’ shores he grills

a carp and catfish breakfast on a charcoal fire.

This is not hunger, this is resurrection:

he eats because he can, and wants to

taste the scales, the moist flakes of the sea,

to rub the salt into his wounds.

~Michael Symmons Roberts