And shall I pick the grapes of your regret
over higher orbs set just beyond my height?
Earthbound by sorrow's vines, shall I forget
the farther, brighter parliament of night
that winds a trellis wrought to bear Orion?
I'll snap them with the sickle-hanging moon;
then, pressed in verses, fruit of the divine,
I'll breathe them while you sleep to ward your room.
I'm now alone, but rhyme might dedicate
tomorrow and tonight to intertwine;
and if I wait, our minds could constellate.
We'll taste on linking lips an astral vine.
So fill your cup with skies and words and hours—
I drink alone to you: the night is yours.