I love teas, my favourite being the Chinese white teas, which are the top 2 buds of the tea plant, which are left to dry in the sun, with no roasting. White teas are caffein-free. The White Hairy Monkey tea of this poem was what I drank at my first pamphlet launch, at Waterloo Tea in Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, Wales.

White Hairy Monkey (Fu Ding Bai Mao Hou)

Brethren of Silver needle,
a pale sweetness enveloping
that opens to yield umami in droves
when strained from my green

Yixing clay teapot,
its frog lid
guarding its secrets.