10 wooden cups balanced in a line

each with 4 eggs in different hues of blue

 

hard boiled for scooping and eating

or peeled and chopped and

mixed with oil and mustard and

 

served up for the community to

nibble on rye sliced thin to

 

make it stretch

like fishes and loaves in that unlikely scenario

 

where people told their story

10 of them balanced in a bowl line woodenly

 

served up to a community

grief-stricken and

struck dumb as eggs

 

of any

number.