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Drink to me only with your eyes <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Craig Kurtz<\/strong> resides at Twin Oaks Intentional Community where he writes poetry while simultaneously surviving the dream. Recent work has appeared in Aerie Literary Journal, The Bitchin\u2019 Kitsch, Burningword Literary Journal, Conclave: A Journal of Character, Danse Macabre, Drunk Monkeys, Maudlin House, The Penmen Review, Poetry Quarterly, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, Teeth Dreams, Veil: A Journal of Darker Musings<\/em> and Zouch Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jonson Variation: A Toast to You Drink to me only with your eyes and my intoxication shall be wise. I will not stagger, nor regret a surfeit of caroused duet. Let us quaff a mellow kiss and I\u2019ll be worthy, I promise. I will not reel, inebriate, as spirits roister, t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate. I shall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8578,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJonson Variation: A Toast to You<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nand my intoxication shall be wise.
\nI will not stagger, nor regret
\na surfeit of caroused duet.
\nLet us quaff a mellow kiss
\nand I\u2019ll be worthy, I promise.
\nI will not reel, inebriate,
\nas spirits roister, t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate.
\nI shall laud, with verse, with mirth,
\nyour honor, health and day of birth.
\nShould you wish another toast,
\nI\u2019ll festinate a fain riposte.
\n\u2019Tis not the juice I seek in sips,
\n\u2019tis the allusion of your lips
\nthat I homage, raising a glass
\nwhich is the spouse of yours, dear lass.<\/p>\n