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Lost Bread

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Lost Bread

In the street
after the storm
I saw them bobbing,
their labels calling out
three times before going down.

Their savior
a bakery worker
dressed in white, his hair
caught up in a net, plucking
the fat French loaves
from the stream.

Daniel J. Gotkin
Seattle