One of an occasional series of bread-related literature. Ode to Bread Bread, you rise from flour, water and fire. Dense or light, flattened or round, you duplicate the mother’s rounded womb, and earth’s twice-yearly swelling. How simple you are, bread, and how profound! You line up on the baker’s powdered trays like silverware or plates …
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Staff of Life
Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. Matthew Henry