Nude Unbending a Stare-Case by Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger

​She had a red,
and slowly fingered stem
while turning eyes down
with faintest hint of grin.
A line of sight
slip-snaked through
lines of bar-fools
on bar-stools,
I watched as she licked
driblets of crimson
off lips the same color
and badly wished
to be reincarnated
as fine Cabernet
the next time around.

A chick du jour
worth a thousand verbs,
one cocktail napkin
number exchange
coupled with a smirk
would suffice as you left,
clutching purse
and licking lipstick
as the final curtain
to a bar scene.