TEA
you my cup of tea
cup
to a T
T-shirt blue but drinking
green tea
the one that comes
with each sachet
individually
packaged
(too brute to
say “bag”
as in
bagged)
Oh Chinese porcelain
what we should be aiming for
fine
but
tough as Michelle
Yeoh
and let us not stand on ceremony
practice
makes perfect and
by now
you might label us ethereal
tide in the cup?
we can tell
you what climate change fluctuation
we need to be calling
cosmic? cosmological? cosmetic?
let us read these leaves like
I Ching hexagrams
patterns
will find you
before you even dream
of looking for them
Heraclitus though
he never
drank from
the same cup twice
or even once
constellations slowly
stretching, becoming lopsided
some must have long gone supernova
and now kindly explain
how this little cupful
of conversation has blown
apocalyptic
as if
there will be no more
time for forays into the exquisite
to contrive the symmetry of shared smile
everything else
an irrelevance