by Carol Parris Krauss
Tasseography. Interpreting patterns in tea leaves.
The inferior grade: dust, steeps in hot water.
Read clockwise, check the patterns like pages.
See what the future, the Year of the Water Rabbit,
holds for those that withhold, fail to.
A charlatan reads.
For a charlatan.
Carol Parris Krauss: Mother. Teacher. Poet.