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      April 22, 2023Cold TeaSarah Pemberton Strong

      Come upon later,
      like a dream recalled at lunchtime.
      Dark as deep water, bone cold.
      Where is she now, the woman
      who poured into a white cup?
      She was standing on the lip
      of the whole river with her plan
      when the current called her and she had to
      go: answer the knocking
      that she in her not-knowing
      called interruption.

      from #34 - Winter 2010

      Sarah Pemberton Strong

      “‘Cold Tea’ is my first published poem since becoming a mother, so it’s fitting that it’s a meditation on something so central to the experience of parenting: being interrupted. Though I discovered in writing the poem that being interrupted is also a reminder that I don’t know what the next moment holds in store.”