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Left Over Wine
It’s fragile and rehearsed in this mind cask
home pleasures are like the sentiment
of crisp, summer wine.
It mouths ‘get help!’
so you dive unexpectedly
into the freezing brook
through wooded trees
perfectly still.
Only you’ve had more wine than usual
and distortion wins.
The grass is intense
and there’s plenty of green-
it’s like having a bottle
you’ve saved all these years.
Blackberries hedge the railway bridge
mulberries give a whole new meaning
to bottled jam-
the purple avenger stays before tea.
You say ‘no’ to this dream in your head
it’s a letting down of home-field
the school team
you approach fewer each year.
You let the grader scrape the voices in the glade
swing the river rope you missed
hold your breath longer under water.
You can’t remember how many silkworms you kept
or when the blackberries disappeared
but the wine tastes sweeter than it used to.
The old neighbourhood has disappeared in brick
the weathercock is a stable dish
and backyard pickets no longer talk.
You turn over, wake in a different world.
Helen Jean Hagemann
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