There are many ways to break bread.
I have just torn a crust apart
to make no more than tasty mouthfuls.
One could cut it neatly into enough
slices for that five o’clock tea
my mother remembers when the parlour
was not only open to the family
but everyone who called that afternoon
-even the coalman was allowed in
but kept rubbing his sooty hands …
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