"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves. Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays."

 “A perfect garden will never come about by itself! There is meticulous work, great talent and endless labour behind every excellent work!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.

Or when you’re away, or at work,
I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.

I like the questions – sugar? – milk? –
and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet,
for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget.

Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon,
I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say
but it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day,

as the women harvest the slopes
for the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi,
and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea."

― Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture

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