For bread and wine there must be a clean platter and clean cup.
When these are clean then will Lord Jesus Christ enter and sup.
Then will there be a double portion for the seventh day
of Sabbath rest after six days of combat on the way.
The way of holiness, the highway in the desert, fire
and water, forking gardens of the heart and mind, our Sire,
His very flesh and blood and infrastructure and Grand Man,
will be received by each in that proportion which each can
receive the Sun and Moon and stars of Heaven in their deeds.
We cast out all the rest like cankerworms, hailstones, and weeds;
cast out black-heartedness and bloody-mindedness, cast out
the sun ashamed and moon confounded. Blow the ram's head! Shout!
We'll purify the inside of the platter and the cup
and we will go inside the rabbit hole and call it up
with trying fire and bitter water where we learn to love
enough for somewhere dry upon which can alight the Dove.
May enemies, self-love and sins, be dung upon the ground;
none left to piss against the wall or cry a sound.
The silver we'll refine with judgment and the gold we'll burn
and gradually into more loving people we will turn.
