Cellar Rats

due to your impending journey

a doleful conversation ensued

over a joyous glass of claret,

where best to scatter one’s ashes?

I thought it strange and said so

that a loving husband and wife

having spent their lives together

would elect different places

for their funereal disposal,

in your case a favourite par three

and her birthplace beachhead

both picturesque true, but miles apart,

was it the wine talking? maybe,

but it gave me the perfect solution,

we could both be carefully decanted

into a copious Marie-Jeanne

corked and stopped with wax

then interred beneath Ausone’s vines

within reach of the Angelus chimes

two sleeping cellar rats

witnesses to future vintages

Published by grahamrsherwood