More than a glass of rosé

An unexpected rosé

Pink cup of implications

I drink you with caution

and dreams of abandon

A wild, reckless abandon

Innocence drowns in your

cough syrup dilution

Break the frame, open the doors

Poppies on your lab coat

bleeding through the pure white

Blanc, rouge, merging into pink

A mottled messiness

of hot, cold, hard and soft

A reminder of summer

Of everything once warm

Even as I shiver

Possibility rimmed

I want to taste your trick

crack the coldness open

I sing of strawberry wine

Moments cradled closely

in arms sad and loving

Summoned outside my shelter

I drink your liberty

into my soul released