May Drops with a Shift to Baguettes

During the pandemic, we bake bread.

Foodies know this can be unpredictable–

the shaping, proofing, scoring,

steaming as we knead through exile.

Through the fermentation

we stare at the rise of

the curve across the planet.

May drops with a shift to baguettes.

Meanwhile the humpbacks

breech in the Van harbor

elsewhere the smog lifts

along with hopes, dreams

prayers bound to the loaf.