Libations Poetry: 2013 Foxtrot Pinot Noir

Libations Poetry: 2013 Foxtrot Pinot Noir

someday, if the wind is right, i will drift alone with her

from the arid _{naramata bench hillsides,}

across the _{pacific northwest} swells

to the lava fractal shores of Tofino.

there i will make a small shelter nestled in the _dense rainforest

adjacent to the ocean alluvion and, for a minute,

share my heartbeat soliloquy with the sea’s aquanova serenade.

hungry and wanting, we will wander down into the sand

under the old _wooden bridge to reap the neap tide bounty.

i will build a beachside fire for her,

then persuade the cork out of a _{vintage pinot noir} and

suckle it’s ambrosia between words as darkness ends the day.

we will talk about how, as children, we were born weeping

into a world of haunting sadness, and yet we found each other still.

an _effortless angel,

she shares her light with this impressionable child.

like silent scripture i then fall into ecstasy at her feet…

the sun rises a little later this time of year.

i hardly sleep thinking about waking next to her.

i make a messy morning feast of _cherries,

cuckoo eggs and a handful of those tiny mushrooms

that tickled her feet yesterday in the lea of the long shadow dawn.

she has time still to lead me down to the warm beachside waterfall

where we bathe each other in silence under the eiffel tower moon.

i hold her _perfect hand in mine,

it feels like sand on a _summer day.

she slowly raises her eyes to mine,

she slowly opens my heart to her world.

seeing her there before me i know,

i could gaze into those twin _cinnamon suns forever…

high and alone,

the _sage flowers rise to greet our stumble and fall,

laughing as we tumble into each other

beneath the towering _oaks of Wickininish.

she likes the cloud shaped liked a heart

so i give it to her as a valentine.

the breeze whispers its _truth.

i watch as it gently blows her hair into a _tawny,

gossamer vermeer across her face.

we lay motionless under the cerulean sky

just long enough to _dream each other’s smile,

to long _{it never ends…}