What they do after

After Luke 24:28-35

After the bread is taken,

after the bread is blessed

and broken,

after the bread is given,

after the bread forces

the remembrance,

after the vanishing,

after they sit stunned,

they remember the journey.

They remember hearts

burning as they talked

and listened, kindled

by the stranger,

they remember the word

opened as he talked,

and they know,

suddenly, abruptly.

In the darkness they rise

and return, to find

the followers, to tell]

the followers the story

of the road, the story

of the remembering

and the vanishing,

the story of the breaking

of the bread.

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