On Parting Well

Come now, you holy ones

who have tasted sweet honey,

who have spoken and were spoken to,

who have loved one another

in the bliss of cutlery colliding against plates,

in the cloistered spaces, scrubbing dishes elbow to elbow,

in the ellipses of bad jokes told one too many times,

and the benediction of late night chatter over mac n’ cheese.

Come now.

Let us be wise in our photography and in our journalling,

to know what to hold loosely and what to

raise as our keepsake,

trusting the routine pots of tea 

and the unfinished Scrabble games

have done their work—a good work

and as needed, will continue on...

and trust that wherever you go,

somewhere in your ephemeral bones,

I echo on with you and you with me.

Text: Elita Fung

Photography: Jessica Chu