An Evening of Wine and Cheese (Poetry Marathon 2022 Hour 5)

An evening with you
Where we can share
My favorite white wine
With a faint scent of oak
If the proper wine glass
Is given room to breathe
And your favorite yellow cheddar cheese
Since I’ve known you
You’ve always loved
Yellow cheese
I think you have a thing for yellow
Though you never mention yellow
As your favorite color
Maybe yellow just goes with your smile
I noticed you have changed your nail polish
You used to be so careful to use either clear or pink
But now you have decided
To use the yellow of sunflower
I guess to match your slice of cheese
As you lift it delicately
We have a few glasses
The space between us
Filled with silence narrows
Before we ate we spoke about our days
And how hard it has become to beat the pavement
You reminisced about how your mother
Would spend the night
Watching tv and knitting
But you and I are beyond that
Now that we have settled in
And put the day behind us
We have no need
In our dialogue for words
We communicate
As all lovers do
Without the need for verbal communication
We use our other senses
Our defenses our so far down
That any disturbance
Will destroy the fragility of existence
In this moment
We can talk later
About sunflowers
And the yellow roses
I bought for you
On my way over