To ensure an experience
of the highest quality, allow
me to suggest a better wine,
a superior description of oak
sketched quickly on the tongue
as ragged sails are sketched
on the label, of the tiny ship.
Permit me to notice
the temperatures of glass
in the mouth, in the hand.
And if a certain night, when lamps
arrived at the end of a bottle. . .
and if those stars should linger
in a certain park,
those kisses hover, interrogate
your mouth while you sleep, allow me
to call it thirst.