Apple Wine, Bitter Greens
You gave me apple wine and bitter greens
a highwire hawk who'd learned to trick the sky,
a line of lakes where the white moon hid her gleams
in cups of apple wine and bitter greens,
in fantasies, daydreams and guillotines
til we were just a wildfire burning dry
drunk on apple wine and parched of green,
two highwire hawks who thought we'd tricked the sky.
February 2022
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Images: Evening at Volga, 1888, ©Isaac Levitan Public Domain
Courting Redtails, 2008 ©Gouldingken via wikimedia commons Fair Use
