The Milliner of Bath

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To Be the Wine (When All Is Poison)

June 20, 2026

Gary Zajc

When the draft

they pour is bitter

a poison meant to end you

in a dark and desperate turn

become the wine.

When an indifferent world

Is deaf to your prayer

whisper to the earth

I am.

And to the relentless

rushing water

declare

I flow.