Monday, 30 April 2012

Summer wine




Summer Wine

The sunshine relentlessly
packs the terroir into you,
summer stuff grabs by the heart  -
as if you might be picked up
this night.

Ah, that maddening blend,
so ripe in your summer loins -
the skin, the flesh and the seed...
man!, put your shades on, relax;
or mature.


'Cause that naked blooming chick
of phylloxera smirks there,
behind an ancient drunk thought -
spray the bitch cold: she's a harvest
killer.

And now get a tan and grow,
so that when the tasting comes,
the judge can take just one sip,
gurgle you ways and declare:
"Let's think…"

…and then, with a proper gulp,
after long hesitation:
 maybe note  "Definitely
no Vosne-Romanée, butwell,
drinkable."