A Thank You to Anger

A Thank You to Anger

Kate Chupp

My tea kettle,
filled with fallen leaves and
murky thoughts of the life
I would have planned
sputters, suppressing heat,
until it whistles high-pitched fury.

It boils and rolls
and scums off impurity—
a film of my incontrovertible God-self and
layers (and layers and layers) of despair
for all that I cannot control.
Anger boils and rolls and scums

and then—we slow down
as I pour a cup for tea,
and let warm passion cleanse me.

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Kate Chupp
Writer & Human Rights Student

Kate has been published in Relief and Opus Magazine

Photography by Khumais Idrees