And bake (them) morsels of fresh bread

Morning eyelash, don’t arise!
Give us our daily bread,
Lord…!

………

And at this cold hour, when earth

smells of to human dust and is so sad,

I would like to knock on all the doors,

and to beg I don’t know whom, forgiveness,

and to make little pieces of fresh bread

here, in the oven of my heart…!

(From Cesar Vallejo’s ‘Our Bread’)

Gaza Beit Lahiya Bakery (Abdelhakim Abu Riash) 2024