The Wine Remembers

By Ryan Keating

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The wine remembers
Being blood when it dripped
From the true vine

Before it reaches my lips
So I can imagine
Dying

And the bread proclaims
With crunch and tear
That it is body

And my soul laid bare
To be fed broken but
Rising

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Ryan Keating is a writer, pastor, and winemaker on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. His work can be found in publications such as Saint Katherine Review, Ekstasis Magazine, Amethyst Review, Macrina Magazine, Fathom, Dreich, Vocivia and Miras Dergi, where he is a regular contributor in English and Turkish.

Ryan's other work on Foreshadow:
Jonah Moves (Poetry, September 2022)
Drarwing from Deep Wells: Ryan Keating and Pilgrimage (Interview, February 2023)