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Mothering the Cup

Where you rest now, may your heart be cupped
in the hands of our Mother Mary.
As Eve herself might cradle in her creased hands
a pomegranate to share with
the beyond-the-garden-world.

Ah, my mother,
what I would not give to sip a cup of tea
at the kitchen table with you being the age I am now,
the woman you were then,
and always will be in our groaning hearts.

Well, until my blood runs cold anyway, and my risen-heart
is rekindled in our Mother's embrace,
like the act of mothering a cup.*
Every breath - just breathing - is a prayer for you
to catch across the abyss
because you gave me spirit. 

I breathe-prayer to repay a mother's love,
sure that was my first great blessing.

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"Mothering a cup" is to prepare tea ware
 - teapots or cups - before pouring the
tea into the vessel.