The Whiskey Taster’s Flavor Guide

File Or Burn

Seeing better from a distance
  than you ever could up close

The memories play like children
   in voices that you spoke 

The truth is where you find it
   every season, every turn

Where space creates acceptance
  —your soul to file or to burn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Perna Avatar
November 29, 2021 at 3:17 PM
Indeed, nicely done! I can relate!
Behm Avatar
November 29, 2021 at 4:29 PM
Thanks Diane.
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