Poetry:
Pratt, Charles W
Charles W. Pratt Graduation Speech for Tim, who turned out OK Like much that matters, baking bread is easy Enough with good ingredients, a simple recipe: To water, sweetener, salt and yeast Add...
...Charles W. Pratt Graduation Speech for Tim, who turned out OK Like much that matters, baking bread is easy Enough with good ingredients, a simple recipe: To water, sweetener, salt and yeast Add flour, and mix...
...The day is yours- Yours and the sun's, now at its tallest hour.allest hour...
...Firmly yielding...
...Cover the dough...
...Devour...
...Then, as the good book says, "Bake until done...
...Or Evidence scattered on the plate Of a loaf the knife disintegrates...
...You've made it, anyhow...
...The Zen of loafing...
...Eat a metaphor...
...Oh yes, there's Mystery, But who demands to understand When the dough is answering the hand Under a morning window opened east...
...Moist and crunchy...
...Do they teach this at the University...
...Now's the time to try if bread is more Than bread alone...
...Taste...
...left in the dark alone It knows to take the next step on its own, And when it's risen with the sun Toward noon an hour or two, punch it back down, Shape it into loaves, and wait Again while it again grows greatBut not too great: just peers above the pan...
Vol. 116 • June 1989 • No. 11
