<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Grandma had her tea<\/p>\n
Once at breakfast<\/p>\n
Once around lunch time<\/p>\n
Green tea<\/p>\n
Steeped in her porcelain tea pot<\/p>\n
With matching cups<\/p>\n
I was invited sometimes<\/p>\n
Sitting across from her<\/p>\n
My tea weaker<\/p>\n
with a spoon of sugar<\/p>\n
Hers sweetened with saccharin pills<\/p>\n
Mine lightened with milk<\/p>\n
We would sip and talk<\/p>\n
I felt grown up<\/p>\n
Important, almost Victorian<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Grandpa never joined us<\/p>\n
He was a coffee man himself<\/p>\n
But he set up the service for her<\/p>\n
Boiled her water on the stove<\/p>\n
Filled the pot for her<\/p>\n
Added the bags<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Their ritual twice a day<\/p>\n
Every day<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Later when they were gone<\/p>\n
Mom and I had our own tea days<\/p>\n
Earl Gray and Lemon Zinger<\/p>\n
A cup in the microwave<\/p>\n
Replaced the whistling kettle<\/p>\n
Porcelain tea pots with matching cups<\/p>\n
became decorations in the china cabinet<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
After Mom passed, it was just me<\/p>\n
and soon the tea<\/p>\n
Became coffee on the run<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sometimes I imagine sitting there<\/p>\n
Gently holding the fragile tea cup<\/p>\n
I can taste the milk<\/p>\n
Hear Grandma’s laugh<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Perhaps one day I will buy a box of green tea<\/p>\n
Maybe pull out that whistling kettle<\/p>\n
Let the tea steep in the Porcelain Teapot<\/p>\n
Set out a fragile matching porcelain cup<\/p>\n
And sip slowly<\/p>\n
The way Grandma taught me<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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