Passed hand to hand, kitchen to kitchen or made of your own strain.
Effervescent, warm as the crook of an elbow.
1 cup starter
Tang of the sea, dried in the sun or
Labored from it's ancient bed.
palm full of salt
Sustainer, banked sunshine
Hacked from the fields, ground in to submission.
7 cups flour
Chipped fired earth, with a blue stripe and lip.
Nouveau ancestral.
1 mixing bowl
Wadded in the corner of the last drawer, found.
Blue checked linen parted warp and weft for hanging.
tea towel
Baby on hip, hair hitched out of view
Hand stands in for a wooden spoon. Mix and rest.
magic bubbles
Forgotten on the back of stove, rediscovery.
Dusted hands slink along, through, around elastic shapes.
second rise
Expansion, gripping uppermost lip of the pan
Night falls, contraction.
bake
Bubbly sigh releases with tightening crumb
Evaporation, setting.
cooling
Slab sliced for breakfast.
Eaten with fork and knife.
peasant meat
Apr 10, 2015
Apr 10, 2015 at 7:42 AM UTC