Cilla+McQueen

 Cup of Tea By Cilla McQueen My mother’s sugar bowl

is tinged with sadness And cannot be put

together again. Tea of tar and smoke. Tea of green. A china bell, a silver spoon,

whirl a pool, lip a fine warm rim. Smile over it. A place to rest,

a small vessel decorated with roses.

Where she lives: Cilla McQueen lives in Bluff, on the southern coast of the South Island.

-Michaela