Tea Poem by Charles Lara

13’’ - Black and White TV
in the 70’s
when everybody else had color
and the brady’s were on channel 7
and ABC was getting all the ratings
and they sat around a Television
and watched how the other half lived
Inside a young winter night
eating Ma’s homemade rice pudding
seven brothers and sisters
waited unbeknownst
to them that love fades
like the scent of a
night flower
wrapping itself before dawn
before they went off
their different paths
but never forgetting
being touched by Ma’s heavens
here in what is called earth