Appellation Carneros - Lee Perron

[Larry Robinson]

Appellation Carneros
                     — for Judy White
 
 
A good merlot is equal parts blood and dust—
and when the Alchemist sets his spigot
into the throat of this valley’s mild behemoth
the bloodline surges through an almost eternal fall.
 
You and I climb the valley’s ridge and stone sober
stand in the anteroom of an old wilderness— escarpments,
low clouds, trails flooded with rain— but I mean
the other wilderness, the one where so much
can be suffered, though sometimes in a pleasant way­—
ah the absolute voluptuousness of not
knowing what the other one is thinking.
 
And the wine-maker smiles & waits, and waits & smiles—
finally he speaks: How would you like to fall blindly
into the hands of one another’s fate? he asks; and
In blindness you will taste your character and your dust.

	- Lee Perron
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