The Dead Pour Me Out Like Tea

I am dead to many, a few are dead to me.
I am not forgotten      
by girls in green silk sarongs

for they still pour me tea.

The dead are drunk on themselves,
as I am.

I throw up a rope,
they haul me up
enough to see
the moon 
caught in a teacup,

then I let them,
let them breathe life 
into my mouth.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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