Late Blooms Runner-Up:
Tina Schumann
Initiation
Handing me the glass
you said
tawny port.
My mouth said -- stained wood, dying embers, brandied blood.
Benediction and sacrament. Anything damp, dank, deep
-rooted. Anything underground, subterranean, verging
on moss or mold.
Anything left
unsaid?