Martha, After Dinner

Martha, After Dinner

Sara Kay Mooney

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.” — Luke 10:41-42

She sits alone at the table.
The light rumble of her sister’s
snores peppers the silence.
Three flies dance on a pile of crumbs.
Idly, she swats them away.

She feels time unfold like a cloud:
weightless, formless—abundantly
unsearchable. It drifts on aimlessly,
never, as she now knows,
to be taken away.

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Sara Kay Mooney
Writer & Reader

Sara Kay is a resident of east Charlotte where she lives with her husband and three children. She is a trained librarian who is obsessed with poetry, and she currently manages communications for a non-profit organization. Her writing has been featured in Christianity Today, Earth & Altar, Misadventures Magazine, Fathom, The Charlotte Observer, among other publications.

Photography by Patrick Hendry