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To Ginger... a Girl I Once Knew

To Ginger... I had a glass of voluminous spirit... hoping to taste the ripples of time... but all i could taste was the bitterness of ginger submerged in the sourness of lime.

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James Marshall Goff

Date: 6/1/2009 9:28:00 AM

oh ripple wine! probably well before your time! Shruti! loved the whole image of voluminous spirits allowing the taste of long-periods of time...very original! great work!!...then the bitter ginger personification, cool!!! fun, fun poem!! sorry I'm tardy responding to your kind feedback, I was off the electronic-grid in the forest of Northern Minnesota for a week, (saw a timberwolf for the first time !) good to be back on the soup! thanks again! Shruti!! Jim