Eye On Life Magazine

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Eye on Life Magazine is a Lifestyle and Literary Magazine.  Enjoy articles on gardening, kitchen cooking, poetry, vintage decor, and more.

Morning Bread

Heartbeat watery as citrus, she
displaces fragments of eggshell

and membrane between fingertips
like a broken prayer bead, flour

molecules settled into windowsills
and misparted hair. Yeast steeps

in a tincture of lavender honey
before dough draws in the morning

damp and swells past fragile lips.
Those rare cookbooks passed down

family lines advise minding liquid
measurements to offset sea level. She

brushes her torn earlobe and bathes the
whisk. She has miscalculated the rain.

 

-- Claudine Nash