What is bread
if it does not rise?
I seeded the water,
waiting for its skin
to foam: to thicken
from the undertow
of sugar, to loft
from all that rich,
slow tempering.
Isn’t this premise
based on increase?
What might be achieved
when one and all
together rose.
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