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2007 was one of the warmest and driest growing seasons ever experienced in the Niagara Peninsula, so the challenge with Chardonnay was to make a wine with elegance. Mandarin orange, peach and lemon zest notes on the nose, followed by rich flavours of brioche and almond. The finish is long with lots of “drag” and lingering fresh apple. $50/750mL.
featuring an excerpt from
Blinding Possibilities
Stephen Elliott-Buckleyin memory of the former great Havana dessert...
I want to spoon feed you
chocolate ganache
on a summer Tuesday midnight
at Havana on Commercial Drive.
I want your eyes to stay closed
so your other senses are heightened,
like taste, of course,
but nerve endings more importantly,
since I’ve slid my foot out of my sandal
and I’m sliding my big toe
up and down
your brazenly naked calf’s
smooth unshaven blond hair.
Then we’ll carve our names on the wall
with everyone else’s,
but I’ll be Wolfgang
or Horst,
and you’ll be Isabeau
or Annalise.
Just before dawn
I’ll wake up
and twist the blinds on the east window
so once the sun’s light
creeps down the west wall
it’ll inch over your hair
and forehead
to rest on your eyelids
to awaken you to the blinding possibilities
of new days,
endless summers,
and always waking to me watching you breathe.
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Vancouver resident Stephen Elliott-Buckley has self-published his poetry in chapbooks, zines and broadsheets since the late 1980s, when he founded the High Altitude Poetry club and zine at Simon Fraser University with the goal of helping new poets find their voice and an audience. He is also a political editorialist at PoliticsReSpun.org, writing about local, provincial, federal and international issues in pursuit of environmental, social, political and economic justice. “I’m a person who tries to cultivate a healthy, hopeful, optimistic and symbiotic relationship with our human and natural ecology,” he says, “both in life and poetry."
http://PoliticsReSpun.org |
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