Shatter

If wine is sunlight held together by water

as Galileo said, how much rain is just right?

Shatter...deny the flower and the grape

shards for the good of the vine.

Too cold and cloudy or hot and arid,

coulure, and it can’t be pollinated.

Wine in the glass, glass in the vine, finally

El Nino is here! The rains have settled in,

gravity strains through alluvial fans

forcing the roots to chase after, but for now

between rows under mustards bloom morels.

Beware of false morels and cook the yellows.

If wine is sunlight held together by water,

mushrooms are water wrapped in terrior!