With A Bit Of Heart

She’s never eaten dim sum before.
This is her very first time. Her debut.
The char siu buns are stacked
ontop of the scallop-and-shitake,
which sit ontop of the vegetable puffs,
with the sticky rice wrapped in
lotus leaf right at the bottom.
We watch together, as the jasmine tea
slowly unfurls itself in the clear hot water
like a flowering foetus from the Song Dynasty.
Over dessert, She tells me that her ex-boyfriend proposed
to her earlier this week. Somewhat out of the blue.
But she doesn’t tell me whether she said yes or not.