Bush Tea

2017
Valérie Déus

You give me the dead
Over rice and stories
Between Ritz crackers at lunch

we are close talkers
mixing our breath
we leave no space for spirits
holy or otherwise

I served a man breakfast
He didn’t make it to bush tea
Are we all just tubes
full of the long stuff?

Julio, it’s bed time
meet me at the pier
I’ll bring the cups