Wine

Nightmares continue with eyes open
although there is really no cause for such things,
I mean relatively speaking.

You think madness might offer release
a certain drunken sweetness, for just a moment,
staggering and completely spent
taking in the whirling panorama of everything
smashed, burned, upended
at last, addressed

Spinning, sickening
you fall,
but that moment,
it was necessary.