Barberone

“Red Wine Harvest”
Painting by Claire Bull
From fineartamerica.com

bring me wine
deep with dark
heady fruit of
my fathers the
cellars of evening
producing this
homemade elixir
of ancestry jugs
set by feet of the
chairs at the tables
of family and
feasting no glass
left unfilled and
no heart left
unwarmed

bring me wine
of new vines
from old roots
of the piedmont
sweet ancient
abundance not
given to fancy
an everyday
blue collar red
for an immigrant
palate a body
that stands
a firm finish
delivering bold
taste of history

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“…and the wine is bottled poetry.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson