Enjoy.
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Journeybread Recipe
- In a tupperware wood, mix child and hood. Stir slowly. Add wolf.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured path, and begin the walk home from school.
- Sweeten the journey with candied petals: velvet tongues of violet, a posy of roses. Soon you will crave more.
- Knead the flowers through the dough as wolf and child converse, tasting of each other's flesh, a mingling of scents.
- Now crack the wolf and separate the whites - the large eyes, the long teeth - from the yolks.
- Fold in the yeasty souls, fermented while none were watching. You are too young to hang out in bars.
- Cover, and, warm and moist, let the bloated belly rise nine months.
- Shape into a pudgy child, a dough boy, lumpy but sweet. Bake half an hour.
- Just before the time is up - the end in sight, the water broken - split the top with a hunting knife, bone-handled and sharp.
- Serve swaddled in a wolfskin throw, cradled in a basket and left on grandmothers doorstep.
- Go to your room. You have homework to be done. You are too young to be in the kitchen, cooking.
- by Lawrence Schimel
Odd little story, but I enjoyed it.
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