Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Black Bread

black bread
cooling on the
rack
hard crust
yields slightly
under pressing
finger tips

placed in a brown
paper bag, I’ll
never know
the pleasure:
sliced thick,
hot from morning toaster &
awash in butter, or
dipped
into wintery soup
polishing even the last
from the sides of
the bowl.

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