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As if denuding
a fridge fugitive avocado,
peel away the glistening foil.
Admire the wire cage
in which the cork
is held captive,
wishing for freedom.
It's yours to give
using a fine linen towel
from Harding & Groves ($65).
Remove cork's metal mask,
placing towel carefully
on its bare Portuguese head.
Imagine Mother Teresa's shawl
as you wrap it around once
to look like Lawrence of Arabia's
ghutra flapping in a hot desert wind.
One hand tight on bottle's throat,
the other circling the shrouded cork,
sharply twist it to and fro.
( Two to's, three fro's works best.)
Bang!
Your work is done,
fine champagne foaming
like a wild dogwood
as it rinses you
from hand to elbow.
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Like this Zorcas. I have a penchant for good instructional poems.
This one is focused and has a dry wit running through it.
I'm not sure if there is that much to admire in the 'wire cage' around the cork,
and I miss the exhilarating pop of a towel free lift off,
but nevertheless this quieter version works for me as well.
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(11-18-2016, 09:36 AM)Sparkydashforth Wrote: Like this Zorcas. I have a penchant for good instructional poems.
This one is focused and has a dry wit running through it.
I'm not sure if there is that much to admire in the 'wire cage' around the cork,
and I miss the exhilarating pop of a towel free lift off,
but nevertheless this quieter version works for me as well.
Had you been a champagne cork trapped in that wire cage, you'd have been delighted to be free of it. As for the toweled decorking, removing it would have wiped out half the poem, and as for the noise of one untoweled, I prefer the more quiet entertainment of the ones drinking once the cork is gone--with inhibitions. Glad you liked it.
