April 6, 2018 at 1:53 p.m.
POETRY
"Women's Work"
We are an office manager, a social worker, a teacher, a translator.
At the moment we are women in the kitchen, doing what we do:
Creating order out of chaos.
We work without a spoken plan; one at the sink, one at the fridge, another with the drying towel, one filling containers.
We work and talk, our words joining the soft clink of china and the hiss of flowing water to create kitchen music.
We laugh at our long memories of holidays past; we ask about children and grandchildren, husbands and elders; we listen to stories of joys, successes, sadnesses, disappointments.
Under mounds of white suds and streams of hot water we work until the last dish is dried, the last counter wiped clean.
Like women at the well, like women at the river, our work is a baptism of water, an absolution, a communion.
(Ms. Hackert-Stoner is a parishoner at Christ Our Light Church in Loudonville.)[[In-content Ad]]
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