Grace

Thanks & blessings be

to the Sun & the Earth

for this bread & this wine,

this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food:

Thanks be & blessing to them

who prepare it, who serve it;

thanks & blessing to them

who share it

(& also the absent & the dead).

Thanks & Blessing to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant & tend it,

harvest & gather it

(may they not want);

thanks & blessing to them that work

& blessing to them who cannot;

may they not want -- for their hunger

sours the wine & robs

the taste from the salt.

Thanks be for the sustenance & strength

for our dance & work of justice, for peace.

Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, In Praise of Fertile Land ed. by Claudia Mauro (Whit Press, 2006)