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All poems from 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' (c2001 by J. Kevin Wolfe), afree ebook of poems in various reader formats.
http://home.att.net/~jkevinwolfe

The author grants web publishing permission for free public viewing and one-time paper print rights of these 5 poems. All other rights reserved. Author also gives permission to publish his email address for reader comments. Poems have been submitted for consideration elsewhere.

Bio: J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60 ezines and in a dozen print publications. 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' is a collection of new poems.

The Teaman Appears
by J. Kevin Wolfe

On any Himalaya
Mr. Chetri claps twice
and a teaman appears

In his paws a rack of glasses
(wiped not washed)
and a Chinese Thermos
green with red flowers
For a rupee he pours cha

Darjeeling steams
with crude sugar
half milk
spiced with smoke
from the mystic wood
it's steeped over

The test of tenure
is to scald fingers
and not
set the glass down

You learn to honor the taste
of cremated trees
In these mountains
all wood is rare wood

from 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture'
c2001 by J. Kevin Wolfe