The wine you choose says a lot about you, your layers and depth, your fleshy richness, the lushness of your imagination and the buzz under your eaves. Choose wisely.

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Little Plaything – Elegant fragrance of fine young ragamuffin
with a touch of busted heart and empty wallet.

Daisy Sweetshine – Appealing bouquet with bright red souls afire,
hint of heatstroke. Medium weight and manic
on the palate with soft curlicues.

The Marvelous – A medium to full-bodied wine
with rattled polka dot aromas and delicate spicy half-notes.
This wine is supple enough to be spotted in a lineup.

Frequent Anguish – A full-bodied morbid desire with a spicy nose.
Powerful yet deceased, with sweet ash on the finish.

A Thousand Dreams Thick – This wine shows a rich depth of hope
and despair in the glass, clean bouquet with rounded seasons
that pass imperceptibly.

A Little Light Shadow and a Solid Fine Furnace – A rich, red-colored wine
with violent tendencies, redolent of Bonnie and Clyde.
Rounded on the palate with a touch of mangle and swoon.

Sameness Chokes Oneness – Deep garnet with complex aromas
of dreaming cars on dewy boulevards. The tannins are fearful
like trampled blue flowers.

Famous Fathead – This wine is full of freshness and leaves you
with a broken body and a wandering spirit.

Life’s Busy Little Dyings – A very balanced yet tempestuous freshness
on the palate with persistent goals.

Crickets Within Me Whisper – Crisp, clean and bursting with tiny noises
and gnarled knuckles. A very light and refreshing day to drown.

Diphthong – This is a well-balanced dry wine with an intense will
to live and a pleasant orthopedic finish.

The Woman Who Disappeared in the Midst of an Embrace –
A light to medium-bodied wine that just lost significant weight.
Yellow in color with bright green expectations. The wine shows
intense tendencies to wander off and get tuckered out
with a rich somewhat banal desire to stand absolutely still.

Foofaraw – A modern wine with great attention
to the wishes, lies and dreams
of the sacrificial fruit.

Stupendous Burst – Pale straw color with green headlights.
The nose is bursting with fresh plastic squalor
and some blue notes bent on suicide
sprawling on the palate.

Impervious to Comprehension – Dry, soft, fresh and over-parented
with a long persistence and high expectations.
Goes well with white fish and rock stars
who die at age twenty-seven.

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Brian Builta lives in Arlington, Texas, and works at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. His poetry has been published most recently in Freshwater Literary Journal, Meridian, and Red Ogre Review. In first grade he won a blue ribbon for the 35-yard dash and in second grade he was Most Outstanding Student for the month of October. He is the author of A Thursday in June and Everyday Oblivion and more of his poetry can be found at brianbuilta.com.