Stone Soup

Hunger is where we start:

from a barren, empty pot

and  hope, like a stone, within.

We come together in need

with all-but-empty pockets:

neighbor and friend,

school and citizen,

artist and banker,

gathering our scraps

to build a common feast

from pocket-lint and prayers;

to transform our singular gifts

with energy and imagination

into a modern miracle

of loaves and fishes…

something made from nothing,

something that makes us whole.