Bakerwoman God (Tim Blickhan)

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Editor: Tim Blickhan (submitted 2013-11-04).   Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 91 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Copyright 2012 Charles Timothy Blickhan

"Bakerwoman God" Copyright 1978 Alla Renée Bozarth Used by Permission

General Information

Title: Bakerwoman God
Composer: Tim Blickhan

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: Sacred

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 2012

Description:

For the Augustana College Jenny Lind Vocal Ensemble, Dr. Michael Zemek, Director

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Original text and translations

<poem> Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread. Strong, brown Bakerwoman God, I am your low, soft and being-shaped loaf.

I am your rising bread, well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth hands. I am bread well-kneaded.

Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, put me in your own bright fire. I am warm, warm as you from fire. I am white and gold, soft and hard, brown and round. I am so warm from fire.

Break me, Bakerwoman God. I am broken under your caring Word. Drop me in your special juice in pieces. Drop me in your blood. Drunken me in the great red flood. Self-giving chalice, swallow me. My skin shines in the divine wine. My face is cup-covered and I drown.

I fall up, in a red pool in a gold world where your warm sunskin hand is there to catch and hold me. Bakerwoman God, remake me.


-- Alla Renée Bozarth Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978, Luramedia/Wisdom House 1988 Moving to the Edge of the World, iUniverse 2000. This is My Body: Praying for Earth, Prayers from the Heart, iUniverse 2004. http://allabozarthwordsandimages.blogspot.com/