RICHARD WEAVER

A Simple wine reduction of the muse

You wish
for something
smoother warmer
than hands
with velvet gloves
to run over legs
wilder than hips.
For once
she’s willing
and tongues
run along roads
forking in every
direction.

Richard Weaver volunteers with the Maryland Book Bank, CityLights, and the Baltimore Book Festival. In his spare time, he’s the official writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub in Baltimore. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the 3rd oldest Jesuit College where he taught in the English Department and was the Head of Library Circulation, and acting Archivist. His first published poem appeared in Poetry magazine, April 1975. In his less-than-spare time he reads for Slant magazine.