bread

with the famine of 84 outside the door
the hunger of the thirties hanging from the wall
starvation in the oven of the world
beggars and new derelicts around Dublin's cornerstones
drinking habits dragging
since they drowned the lack of food,

Elena
has learned the elementary skill
of how to make bread

so instead of potatoes in the pot
it's bread and beauty

for she looks like the Connemara girl
in the red colour of caring