
Fragments of bread
hours after supper
fill my ceaseless hunger —
Midnight and the light
is sparse,
the camel-eyed windows
gaze
at Giacometti
shadows —
Daybreak alights:
I laugh with the warblers,
and the breath of my nostrils
fires the oven,
the bread for my hunger,
once again.
by D. G. Vachal © 2013
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