Tonight's Poet Corner: If This Is Love
If This Is Love by Belinda Roddie If this is love, give me a bottle so that I may cork it and keep it safe in a dusty cabinet, where no one can take it from me. Let me steal a sip from the glassy lip each month when the air is dry. There will be traces of passion in it, as rich as blackberry jam and yet as subtle as a peach aroma in a summer orchard. The smell of oak will bring me back to swing sets by old churches, where I find a kiss to be sweeter than lemonade while the sun is extra hot. I will find someone to drink this love with me, so long as they have the stomach for it. Then, when the bottle is empty, we will fetch another dose from the aging barrel, where it grows fuller with each passing year.