Muscadine

Muscadine

R. Lynn Bruning

What once tasted sweet now tastes so bitter;
what’s made for the heat can’t last the winter;
thought I knew wine, but now I know better;
yellow muscadine, once sweet now bitter.

What once tasted bitter now tastes so sweet;
heart’s all aflutter in the Southern heat;
I thought I knew wine, but that’s what I get;
purple muscadine, once bitter now sweet.

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R. Lynn Bruning
Writer & Musician

R. Lynn is a writer of fiction, poetry, and song lyrics. She has an MFA in Writing for Children from Simmons University. 

Photography by Dominika Gregušová