czech bread sounds delicious!

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Dalka Rohlicek

Ah, the days breed into the days,
The brook which fed all summer
stirs against the banks, more hungry even
than that famous miller's daughter
from whom no braided roll or chaste young man was safe--
They say Dalka Rohlicek could take a hive
from a sap-tree without fear,
and lay the combs
on new white loaves
for lovers' gifts,
a woman with flour on her collar,
a mountainous woman...
And who now bears the name
Dalka Rohlicek, unlikely
and pendulous flower,
a woman who bit
my lip, drew blood, and wept,
bewildered, at the wound?
The wind that turns the mill-wheel
calls this name, Dalka Rohlicek,
who bit into the morning like a hoska roll,
and on the mill-wheel works its toothless gums,
and the glutted river
draws its body north...