Drinking Rice Wine
drinking rice wine
is sweetest
by a winding stream
with old friends
and pipe tobacco
in early October –
every winecup
filled to the brim;
every winecup
floating equally
downriver.
George Wallace is writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and editor of Poetry Bay Magazine. He is the author of forty-two chapbooks and five spoken word albums. He is the recipient of various awards, including the Orpheus Prize, Alexander Prize, Aristotle Medal, and Silk Road Prize.
