Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Bacchus Backyard


The vineyards blanketing the shadowed slopes
span across the near horizon
Solemn in mourning lilac

Steam rose from out of the spires
and out of wooden crosses,
The sun masked itself 
in a shy white haze

that climbed through all 
betweens and up over 
the narrow rows, hurdles crosses

an angel in the cemetery
lands
the feet feel home

The wine is red, the blood is fresh
and tears dew
nourish the vine. 


 Painting by Caravaggio [Public domain], Young sick Bacchus (1593) via Wikimedia Commons.
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