Irish Crystal & Old Friends

The menu is simple yet elegant
Irish crystal paired with prestigious peaks
that soar above 14,000 feet but
are bare of winter snow.

Here on the table set for stars is
the season incarnate in
sweet roses of watermelon and
the last of the Palisade peaches.

Her vision is an emulsion of
old friends and new
seated in splendor
for fine dining In the deep woods.

The recipe is a good one, a keeper
for its complex flavors of laughter that turns to tears
of civility that simmers into the salacious
of a warm dusk reduction into a cool celestial night.

We bring the best of us
to be nourished body and soul
by the alchemy of midsummer
in the familiar bosom of proud Ponderosas
warmed by an eternal oak brush embrace.

It makes a pièce de résistance
ambrosial and ethereal as bubbles in champagne.