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A Riper Day


Like wine,

Poets age with every year

 

Tattered labels stained,

vintners unclear

 

Bordeaux, Merlot, or Cabernet,

words mellow in the dark

 

Where time ferments a riper day

—its richness to impart

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019) 

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