While the mother tended to her twin sons, dough was left rising on the granite counter. It grew so much that it rose to the ceiling and then squeezed out the open windows. It covered the neighbors' houses to the left and the right.
   
When the August sun baked the bread, the covered people and animals ate their way out of a warm and tasty sourdough cave.

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Maureen Sherbondy's most recent book is BELONGINGS, a collection of poems. She lives in Durham.

Detail of photo on main page courtesy of John St. John.

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