Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Service, January 2006

(2.19.06, rev. 2.21.06)

We remain standing for the service. Censed,

I am made dizzy by the numinous:

The blessed bread undivided,

Images before which red candles flicker,

A simple cloth, this oil, lacking wine.

This place of Cyril and Methodius

I have invaded - invited

Looks of suspicion from the old, disinterest from the young.

You give me bread,

But will not let me join the feast.

Is this really a fragment?