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Afternoon Tea

On January 10, 2018 By Lauren Scott, AuthorIn Poetry29 Comments

cookies and tea

cookies
look
pretty
on her
aunt’s
china

her
mom’s
recipe,
nothing
but

the best

no
sugar

needed
for the

tea,
the
dough
is
sweet

sorrow
invites
itself

she’s
had

better
parties

Lauren Scott © 2018
(photo: Google)

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