From the book And Don’t Come Back, published in 2021.
Tea Set-To
Scrupulous, are you
or do you favor the more ambiguous side of things
You being a patterned saucer
unhappily married
and so
what outcome will you be?
Straightforward out in the open
divorce from the teacup
whose off-register glaze is not quite matching yours
or
The on-the-sly rattle or two
the accidental slide that ends in a fall to the floor
and in your subsequent evidence
your explanations
as embellished as you are
What will you do?
What do you say?
2/28/20
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
I enjoyed the simmering tension in the relationship between these anthropomorphized items. It feels like the setup for a crime to occur.
Oh yes. So many relationships in life, even our possessions, and they don’t get along. Sometimes I wonder if that is the default setting on this planet, things ajar or askew or not fitting together, and oh the friction!
This feels like a chapter taken from life…
Thank you. Sometimes it seems like so much is mismatched in life. What happens next is up to the pieces, I always feel!