<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0142 Buttering Bread</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yesterday<br>I was buttering bread for sandwiches<br>when I saw myself doing this<br>as I must have watched you all those years ago, <br>and forgotten ever since 'til now -<br>the butter firmly spread right to the edges of the crust, <br>pressed into the yielding bread, <br>and then the surplus gently scraped off on the knife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with all the careful but not mean economy<br>of a family which after your father's lungs<br>gave in to the cotton dust of the mill<br>where he worked so proudly for John Bright <br>the reformer (and there's a thought) <br>and your mother opened the front door of your home, <br>whose street-front window now became<br>a front-room shop for home-made cakes<br>so that the neighbours' help was charity with dignity and fair exchange; <br>the butter for the scones<br>you made before you left for morning school<br>came from out of a wooden tub<br>from the 'Italian warehouseman' or<br>the very first Co-op, down in Toad Lane...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether the tears poised at the corners of the eyes<br>were of sadness or of gratitude<br>for this so unexpected memory of the living dead<br>I couldn't say. But now, <br>gratitude. And, and, beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460615" data-title="0142 Buttering Bread de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Yesterday I was buttering bread for sandwiches when I saw myself doing this as I must have watched you all those years ago, and forgotten ever since 'til now - the butter firmly spread right to the edges of the crust, pressed into the yielding b..."></div> </div> </div>

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