Bread

From Ann Glover O’Dell’s Midwifing the Soul:

I file through recipes

to search for Grandma’s

special rolls

and practice to perfect

the taste remembered

and then like Grandma

add pinch of this and that

to make original

the handed down

old recipe from

prior generations

and all the while

wondering how much bread to bake

or how much kneading

of my soul before I’m

made into some bread

communion worthy.