Thursday, July 22, 2010

kittycorner from the manneken pis

Duvel
poured into a fluted glass
        which flutes likes a tulip does 
              a large bulb, arabesque indented meniscus and a lip 
when you pour the beer right down along
       the lower curve out 
             of that rounded arabesque tulip glass 
                    it seems to be all foam 
                             at first.
       until 
 it rises golden 
        spouting up the curve, along the glass flower 
              hitting the bottom and swirling bubbles up 
                     rising fermented waterspout typhoon 
choppy waves of heady foam
       above golden ocean 

and then the bottle is empty and the glass
        perhaps half full of beer
              another half inch of foam 
                    to dew my moustache 

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