Libations can kill a man,
I have seen it happen.
Yet as I stand at my kitchen sink
pouring the wine
of my own skin
I realize that it is for this
that I have come here:
to smell this earth again,
my own scent,
and drown by way of heaven
back into my body,
never denying
this rapture
I know.
This article appears in Elrod’s Rule.