The Flavour of Bailey's Irish Cream

The flavour of Bailey’s Irish Cream: mellow with a tang ...

(The slim bottle is black, with a red label.

Surely those back-to-back gold initials are new?

I don’t remember them. But then, it’s a long time

since I’ve had a glass of Bailey’s — before tonight, that is.

(It came in a box with two glasses —

heavy-bottomed glasses

with curved sides for the grasp of a hand.

They too have those initials, back-to-back B B.

And they have gold rims.

(At the moment one glass is clean,

the other is buttery golden from my drink.

How good if I had someone to share

my gift bottle of Bailey’s Irish Cream.
But alone is good too.) ... white fire, yet subtle.