The wine had been sitting in the glass
for three hot days
when I poured it
down
the
sink
& saw the stain
it left
on the side:
a sigil
a rune-like mark
Of some sort,
representing
Angel or demon,
Benediction
Or curse?
The drinker’s version of ‘the writing
on the wall’?
A message from another world?
I look at it long
Unsettled.
Perplexed.
what does it look like to you?
John Malone 
Great post 🙂
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thanks; if you had seen the first draft … 🙂
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I think that aliens are trying to contact you!
By the way, you sent me to google to find out what sigil means. Don’t think I ever saw that word before. See ya!
Neil
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LOL. Yeh, it sent me to Google too after I cane across it in an article. How happy I was to use it in a poem. I used it originally as the poem’s title but traffic was slow so I changed it to the more mundane ‘stain’. I wonder how important the title of a post is??
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It reminds me of the eye of Horus with the reapers scythe over it.
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Yes, I could see an eye there too, for sure. Perhaps the eye of a scarred one, who has seen much …
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Oh. I like that 🙂 it amazes me that that stain appeared naturally, a wine friend suggested it could be the tannins or a fault in the glass itself but I’ve cleaned it and checked — it’s all uniformly smooth. Creepy
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