Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Drummers of Summer

A heart beats alone
                                   in the center of
                                                              the circle

              the other drummers pound
                                                              around its cue

                       and soon it disappears
                                                              in the swirl

                            of Persian dancers
                                       red bonfires
                                     flying dreads.


A person's only ever wholly a person
                                                             in the whole

                         completely dissolved.