Two shirts hanging

Two shirts hanging,
by the mouth of the oven,
drying sweat stiff, a line,
mixing with flour, the yeast.
 
Sister Sledge on the overhead,
the radio looping, repeating,
“We are Family”, while we labored,
sweat running down our cheeks.

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February 24, 2024
Two shirts hanging
 
Sweating at the roll oven,
No door to the oven,
no exhaust hood…
&
February 23, 2024
Making the dough
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/making-dough.html
The mixing room on the top floor
of Holsum Bakery (formerly Goddard Bakery)
Maple Street, Claremont, NH,
Summer of 1979,
after my first year of college.
I worked 14 weeks on the roll oven
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
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Not what we imagine,
nothing so pretty,
our expectation,
what is your image,
when I say the word bakery,
what comes to mind?
 
Making the dough,
in batches of 300 pounds,
for rolls, 500 for bread,
a giant mixer on its side,
doors opening like lips.
 
A coal-car, a trough,
rolling across the floor,
a shoot, gravity, the weight,
pulling the dough downward,
into the maw of the machine
above the floor below.

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February 23, 2024
Making the dough
 
The mixing room on the top floor
of Holsum Bakery (formerly Goddard Bakery)
Maple Street, Claremont, NH,
Summer of 1979,
after my first year of college.
I worked 14 weeks on the roll oven
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, bakery, factory, industrial, dough, rolls, bread, mixer, work, memories, Claremont, NH, summer, heat,
 
#Poetry #bakery #factory #industrial #dough #rolls #bread #mixer #work #memories #ClaremontNH #summer #heat