Jacqueline collier

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Tea Leaves

Written in 2025/MAY

The tea leaves
you left me
to interpret

I try to
bring meaning
to surface

they say stars
speak of fate
but I watched them
disintegrate

in warm water
and detergent
’cause I still
wasn’t certain

whether the stars were
predetermined
or just a random
occurrence 

of nature
so I wait here
in front of hot water vapour
designing meanings on paper

for the tea leaves
you left me
to interpret

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I’m Jacqueline and I’m originally from Western Australia but now I live in Adelaide. I advocate for Australians living with FND, and I hope to return to live poetry performance in the future.

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