blather_tea
ever dumbening a lavender packet
with a rust red stick
of cinnamon
dangling on ragged twine

claret red bleeds under the boiling.

the bright citrus apple
berry tongue
reconnects me to the book--
the book that left and left
a mark and took a mark

i turned the tea into incense,
from dogen's temple,
hoping the curling spires
would rise elsewhere,
elsewise
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