Able Muse - last supper https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/227/227? en Last Supper https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/alan-sullivan/last-supper? <p><span style="font-size:150%; font-weight:bold">Last Supper</span><br> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8212; i.m. Vince Murphy</em></p> <p>In the house where a father lies dying,<br> grown-up daughters and sons<br> have begun surreptitiously grieving<br> while hospice nurses, like nuns,<br> murmur their grave observations: <br> the patient has passed beyond pain,<br> beyond intransigent passions<br> and the filial bonds that remain.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/alan-sullivan/last-supper?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/alan-sullivan/last-supper?#comments Poetry Alan Sullivan last supper poems v6 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:24:45 +0000 Administrator 163 at https://www.ablemuse.com