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21 Oct26
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collections:
“Sphinx Moth” (Poetry Salzburg)
and Shoestring Press –
“In Desert”
“Canyon Journey”
“Tightrope Dancer”
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Preparing for the Desert
Having a Cuppa, After Losing My Sense of Taste
I sip the idea of tea.
The heat still exists,
the teaspoon pirouetting,
the rim of the cup against my lips,
the liquid leaping round my tongue,
the clarity of the greenness,
the memory of a lemony scent.
Each time I conjure
you back
from memory,
you come so close to yourself.
I can have a cup of the idea
and drink the word
until it becomes all it is meant to be,
a perfect hint of loss.
Judith Wilkinson
in collection Sphinx Moth, 2026, Poetry Salzburg,
ISBN 978-3-901993-90-9
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