duet

This is a poem written while listening to Marilyn Crispell and Harvey Sorgen’s Forest, which I reviewed yesterday . —Gary Chapin

duet

two of you

talking to

amplifying

drawing power

resisting throttling ignoring

disavowing disgorging

and demonizing

angel eyes

each other

which comes together

comes out

you two

scandalize conscience

w violence—explosions

clusters percussions

velocity volume elegy

feel good

creation is a mess!

not emergence—collision

a train wreck

afternoon storm powered

by an unrelenting sun

that drives wives to murder

and children to cruelty

and praise and
invention and

life

a cauldron on the roil

primordial aminos

proteins

become

us

for Marilyn Crispell and Harvey Sorgen