High Bush

Amigo Have a Cigar

By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 28, 2015

High Bush

The work gets harder
Takes more time
More spread out
Low hanging fruit
The anecdotes
Easy stories
Picked clean
Reaching higher
Takes a ladder
My consigliore
Brother Robert
Main man
Explained it
Like Cuban cigars
Finest in the world
Perfect climate
Soil and humidity
Rare tobacco
Bottom leaves
The filler
Rolled not chopped
Middle leaves
Binder around them
Upper leaves
Baked by the sun
Delicate and transparent
The wrapper
Gives the flavor
Tender and moist to
The touch
Rolled with one’s fingers
Savoring aroma
Kissed by flame
Filling mouth
Wafting up the nose
Paired with finest
Old brandy
Treasured contraband
Banned in the U.S.A.
Fruit of Castro’s
Forbidden revolution
Taboo topics
Shared by comrades
Hunkered down in
Private clubs
Or rustic huts
Explorers
Staggering in from
Terra incognita
Telling tales
Ancient and new
Caves of Tibet
Frozen tundra
Mountain retreat
Of Hassan
And his assassins
Trance like reverie
Conjuring the
Esoteric
Bursting flavors
Sweat lodge of
Initiates
Moby Dick survivors
Bringing home
Pineapples
Of hospitality
From marooned
Memories