Bakerwoman God, br I am your living bread. br Strong, brown Bakerwoman God, br I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. br br I am your rising bread, br well-kneaded by some divine br and knotty pair of knuckles, br by your warm earth hands. br I am bread well-kneaded. br br Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, br put me in your own bright fire. br I am warm, warm as you from fire. br I am white and gold, soft and hard, br brown and round. br I am so warm from fire. br br Break me, Bakerwoman God. br I am broken under your caring Word. br Drop me in your special juice in pieces. br Drop me in your blood. br Drunken me in the great red flood. br Self-giving chalice swallow me. br My skin shines in the divine wine. br My face is cup-covered and I drown. br br I fall up br in a red pool br in a gold world br where your warm br sunskin hand br in there to catch br and hold me. br Bakerwoman God, br remake me. br br br From Wompriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978, br rev. ed. Luramedia 1988, distributed by Wisdom House; br Gynergy by Alla Renée Bozarth, Wisdom House 1990; br Water Women, audiocassette, Wisdom House 1990; br Moving to the Edge of the World by Alla Renée Bozarth, br iUniverse 2000; This is My Body~ Praying for Earth, br Prayers from the Heart, iUniverse 2004. All rights reserved.