<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b8545747-7fff-535c-1c47-659c6a32f8d7"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Love’s Tea Cup</span></p>by Joan Myles</span><div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">blue porcelain curves upward</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">blue porcelain at the rim</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and where I swim I swim</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bathed in blue blue porcelain</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">my hands my eyes my upward gaze </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">within without and through</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the mystery is porcelain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the porcelain is blue</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>