Waiting For the Dough To Rise

The grain field's in a huge downpour

Add some salt and knead some more

Glue ten benches to the floor

Wheat wishes to be wise

Waiting for the dough to rise

Can you pick up on these crumbs

Sometimes slowly culture comes

For mentation of our tongues

Proof of such surprise

Waiting for the dough to rise

Scales are scraped, the Mother's fed

Loaves are couched here in their beds

Flour clouds around my head

Boules will burst their sides

Waiting for the dough to rise

Fire's banked, and ashes swept

Sifter sits, steam is set

Reach to where the blades are kept

Peel that hunger from your eyes

Waiting for the dough to rise

We're all bastards in our way

Little bits of dough like clay

Heading for the heat, they say

Oven spring, and then it dies:

Waiting for the dough to rise