Holy Bread

The hunger was the woman with a friendly, foreign name-tag.

That busy Saturday.

A miracle healer, as pale as milk, passed through the city –

a reminder that we all had our role to play in the war.

For a moment, his voice stopped the curious shoppingbagscrowd-

echo between tall cement buildings.

A sudden rain followed, baptised my sleeping bag,

in the queue at the Lower Street Food Bank.

The history sliced a nearby road in tiny squares of holy bread.

Maria Stadnicka
Montage: Claire Palmer