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Baking bread
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14 Early morning in half light
setting out to bake some bread
getting out the tools all need
shining steel and burning heat
6 quart mixer of heavy weight
shining bowls of stainless steel
spinning hooks of the enamel white
heavy motor of ozone stink
hardened glass and red thermometers
measuring cups of precision use
machine ground wheat of brown and white
salt of sea and golden butter
glasses of water heated just right
packets of yeast poured with in
golden honey from wild flowers
mix together and set to bubble
steel cups filled with white flour
even smooth with knife for butter
poured into the spinning hook
spinning in an orbital pattern
adding both salt and butter
spinning till as smooth as satin
adding then the brown wheat flour
turning till it ascend like a ladder
pouring out on floured counter
kneading with fingers lightly floured
shaped to fit the loaf tins waiting
there to rise with yeast breathing
oven heated to medium hot
filled with steam for the crust
baked until a golden brown
with the kitchen aroma filling
new fresh bread hot from oven
set aside to finish breathing
then to slice for the eating
covered with butter and golden honey
Like Homer's epic catalogue
Like Homer's epic catalogue of the Greek armies and ships at Troy, and John Milton's catalogue of the fallen angels transformed to devils in Paradise Lost and countless other catalogues by the imitators of Homer, you have taken a common, ordinary experience and raised it to the level of heroic verse, even without iambic pentameter. This is a great strategy and I applaud your accomplishment here.
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