CAULDRON & DRINK

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They love their honey and they love the vine,

the wine and beer they engender with fire

and the altered world each takes them to.

They name their vessels like newborns, they name

their goblets and flagons and mixing bowls

and give titles to their cauldrons, those cornucopias

of bronze or clay or silver, a few or

a few hundred gallons deep for meaningful

intoxication and the huge feast,

faces beaten into the metal sheets

polished with running honey and mead and wine:

the gorgon or the boar or the winged deer

or the antlered god, legs crossed, the animal

master with serpent in hand and surrounded

by canine and feline and stag – and so

take a long drink and go for some outsized

strength, go for some feat of appetite and bragging:

drown your faces in grapes, drench your faces in gold.

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