Communion

They open their mouths
because the body’s hunger speaks

for the spirit. You know this
by the way they close

their eyes, how they push
the world away, all that

light through the window.
It is unbearable to watch

as watching two people say
goodbye at the airport is—

almost—the public display
of grief, how they hold

each other in
their private dark, which is

its own silent prayer.