Thanks, I am glad you appreciated what I was trying to do. Of course I did
not mean a literal memorial service or a literal taking of communion, but these
were intended to be representative of a failure of faith. I hope that came
across. It is difficult for me to know what is reaching a reader and what is
not, and often I fail. But that is the challenge of reading and writing poetry,
and perhaps one of the many elements that make it poetry. I heard someone
describe poetry as a lake where on the surface the water is clear, but as one
stares one realizes that below there are murky depths and things that are not
immediately seen on the surface. I liked this description. Sue
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