5000…
Everybody ate and was satisfied. Mark 6.44 (Phillips)
The carpenter’s magic
was the food that day
not the bread and fish
they were merely the
distraction, the coin
you’d swear was there
just a minute ago.
Multiplication was
not the trick but
rather subtraction,
dimming the crowd’s
eye as sleight hands
took hunger, blessed
and broke it to pieces.
So very rich, brother…thank you!