Wine Sutra

Lips are for wine

of a particular kind

but grape drawn intoxication

dark red or gold

is discolored and poor

against the liquid maturities

of heart aged wineries

that give distilled word-essence

and the exotic silent aftertaste –

and yet, for all the delights

of lip and heart

your extensive vineyard gives

it is the trace of fingertipped grace

on fingertip-lips

that’s wine unsurpassed.