Little Tippler

Little Tippler

—after “I Will Sing Thy Name”
and Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed”

Drunk and swaying to Thy Name
Lifted above the world of praise and blame.

Little Tippler leaning against a sunbeam
Drunk and singing, singing, singing Thy Name.

Thy joyful name, Om,  Guru, Om—
Thy holy name, Om, Guru, Om.

Drunk on the wine never brewed
Little Tippler leaning against a sunbeam.