the “wee tea”
a child’s sampler
urge the fractious toddler to
“just have a taste”
nursery food on a plate
rectangle triangle circle
cubed, it’s a geometry lesson
dowager eats a cucumber sandwich sixth
half-circle and square in the gullet
Crystal Hurdle’s most recent book, Teacher’s Pets, a novel in verse for young adults, was published by Tightrope Books in 2014. She teaches English and creative writing at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and is a former fiction editor of The Capilano Review.
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