Quickstep
Acknowledge the drum’s whisper.
Yield to its velvet
Nudge. Cut a slow air–
Curve. Then dip (hip to hip):
Sway, swing, pedantically
Poise. Now recover,
Converting the coda
To prelude of sway—swing—
Recover.
Acknowledge
The drum-crack’s alacrity -
Acrid exactitude -
Catch it, then slacken,
Then catch as cat catches
Rat. Trace your graph:
Loop, ellipse. Skirt an air-wall
To bend it and break it -
Thus– so –
As the drum speaks!
