Poems Niederngasse
Levi Wagenmaker
alcohol

taken back to its Arabic roots
is a powder made
from antimony and used
as an eyeliner
maybe Ben Jonson knew that
perhaps his Celia applied
make-up to her eyes
or then again
they may have been drinking
from grubby-rimmed cups
couples in their evanescence fade
couplets help some words survive
the wine-moist lips
whispering

Levi Wagenmaker:  Life as a journalist of the roving kind provided me with more than one language. Days too short to read novels consoled me with poetry.  My genes and training  (nature and nurture) are reason enough for writing my own lines of verse.  At nearly sixty, and invalided out of journalism, a life of scribbling and patching up a large stone building at the edge of France's central plateau are just what the doctor ordered.  email:  L.Wagenmaker