It's all the talk

After Luke 24:13-27

On the road, they talk

of what’s happened,

trying to make sense

of the arrest, the trial,

the death, the burial,

the tomb, the stone

rolled away, the angel

who says he’s gone.

They roll these things

back and forth, struck

talkative with amazement,

sharing their perplexity,

trying to grasp,

trying to understand,

the meaning and so

discern the future.

A man draws near,

interested in their words.

Almost happily, they 

repeat their conversation,

still reaching for what

it all means, sounding

new to themselves,

because it is, even

the hundredth repetition.

Photograph by Jon Tyson via Unsplash. Used with permission.