"He who can not draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth"- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Saturday, 29 January 2011

A Loaf of Hour


English bread!  Regular as clockwork,
But what is it in those flourly clogs,
That makes it so accuratly hourly?

Is it the pendulum of the yeast,
That makes it rise like a sun from east,
Or is it just the air,
                               which is beaten into there?

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