I Sipped Spice Poem by Debora Short

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

touching my lips
savoring life's
many-flavored drink

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

two-stepping joy
pantomiming naughtiness
stomach gnawing the anxiety

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

thirty years of his love
the melody of miscreant mischief
renal failure nearly crashes

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

relishing our meal
systolic - diastolic lashes
so close to that last supper

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

Cherishing that long ago oath
in sickness and in health...
we make new reservations

I sipped spice
a delicious vice

Together again, we create
a new authority
setting aside a world gone mad

I sipped spice
a delicious vice


June 26,2005 ~
Bells Island, Currituck, North Carolina