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Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

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This wine is an earthbound vessel
that you take in two long drinks:
one gets you to the border
and the other sets you past it.

You may well do this alone,
for transport knits the spirit to the storm clouds
as surely as cellars keep more keys
than secrets in them, and
there are embers dissolved in this glass
like a cottage-light hidden in hills:
each sip in the stairwell
is a step from the lantern hung outside
and floating, or footprints from a door
opened wholly onto evening.

You are made liminal
and blurred out by it,
wine soft as candlelight
spun round in darkness.
It holds a deep fire-lighted will
and has always had the means to move you.
Written in response to a wine at a wine-tasting event.
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