spirit

[dukealien]

spirit

I nearly found truth sedimented
at the bottom of a bottle of wine,
or at least something closely related
it has certainly felt really fine.
and I honestly wanted to say -

but my tongue would refuse to untie
(while my lips were already all numb),
paralyzed in this fear of a lie,
words collapse, any sound seems too dumb
- i am watching the dust fleet away.

Very nice.  Thought at first L2 was a little clunky, but fits in with drunktalking.  The last two lines are clever:  dumb sounds neatly mismatches by inverting sounds dumb, and fleet away makes an arresting image of dust-bunnies sailing off like a herd of silent gray sheep while avoiding cliches such as fly or float.  As to the title... a little too deep for me after two cups of coffee.  Where's my corkscrew?