Whitest tea

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Photograph I : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Whitest tea

I start the day by tea, Earl Grey.

It is more than a ritual in more than one family.

Tea has been prepared by exactly the right water,

moment, temperature and flavour.

It gives time. It does not ask time.

I had to wait for cookies by my grandmother.

I guess, 7 years old. I can still remember.

My grandfather did not say, a word.

A painter writes by silence, in the glory

of more than one window.

I can still remember, all the colours, he really

gave me, because I was impressed, somehow.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

March 28, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9264641-de-dag-waarop-ik-geboren-ben-had-mijn-vader-gezien

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : M. Ende – Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch

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