Yarra Valley

Wineries all over
the Yarra Valley
look barren in winter
without prompt
transporting my mind
to somewhere else
dear to my heart
on the other side
of the earthy globe
those naked twigs
sticking right up
pointing to the sky
pleading with the winds
begging to carry on
millenias' burden
to bear fruit to
the joys of man
serious business
this fairly new
tradition in Aussie
ignited by an old world
needs and wants
and exceeding at it too
to Yarra Valley
I raise my glass
a symbol of Dionysos
in an odd context
so strange that I think
the Greek Pantheon
might have moved here
for this new millenium.