The Poetry Corner

Humboldt's Current

By Paul Cameron Brown

Cresta roja wine - colour of arterial blood, vena cava of the alcoholic soul. And seeing bottles bob in mainstreams of men's blood to pistol whip their reddened eyes, Humboldt's current becomes a rash of drinking, a map that charts more bloody lies. The thirst that passeth all human understanding, (an alternate Biblical rendering) certainly body heat surpasses Vulcan's bellows adding new faces to Delirium Tremens.