~notes on winemaking

    tilt your head, small bird

listen to the coming rain

moisten the tree

as she lifts her leaves to flirt

with wind

observe the way her slight limbs

sway

the delicate shape of her boughs

    pressing

arcing against the plum skin of a

thundering sky

    pressing

until plump clouds burst

blackberries to wine

    tilt your head, small bird

as she flowers like dogwood

lah  7.9.15 ©®