“ ... But we who eat the bread when we come in
Out of the cold and dark know it is a deeper mystery
That brings the bread to rise:
It is the love and faith
Of large and lonely women, moving like floury clouds
In farmhouse kitchens, that rounds the loaves and the lives
Of those around them ...
Just as we know it is hunger –
Our own and others’ – that gives all salt and savor to bread ...”
Thomas McGrath
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