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Teabags are for toothaches.
Only loose leaf
will surround you
with tundra swans
when your day
has been a series
of smoldering tree stumps
when you've been standing too long
in your own noise
waiting for someone to say
ssshhhhh.
I brew for you
because I love that your ears
are not packed with sand
when the world is talking
that when you see a dewy
spider web, you think
it's stuck with stars
because when the laundry
pile is a mile high, you say
I think I'll just stop wearing clothes.
(originally published on the Tupelo Press Live from the Loft website May 2013)
copyright 2014
Donelle
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