Phil Hefner was a longtime member of Augustana, professor of theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and a prolific poet. He died earlier this year.
Eucharist
The story
that is my story
my restoring
the acting out
that is my enactment
Yielding of bread
that is soft tissue
of a body
dying
bitter wine
bitterness
of blood spilt
the enacting
that establishes the world
my world
In eating
there is dying
In dying there is living
The story
that re-stores
begins
in night
ends
in day
Phil Hefner 3/20/2023
Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park 
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