Jackie's Song

Water and bread
or bread only.
Bread in water washing.

Bread to hand, hand to bread
conspiring.  Cupped
or crossing hands that drop.

In bread released I seek
to teach myself to sing.

Fast strung lines across
carpet and linoleum.
I'll show you love in
a handful of sand, cupped
and released.

-Neal Miller, 1996



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