DUET

DUET

am hear
to learn; listen
know
    my
history

be
sweetly transported

these minds encompassing
everything
         voices like
encyclopedias

from Custer to Agincourt to
Hastings to the Stones
all the way back
to eleventh
century Japan

and me
thinking I knew it all
knew
ever so much

and there at that court
ruled by these poetic ladies
cannot
   but think
would have been
in my element

reading
  her body’s calligraphy
drowning in
her incense

learning every nuance
code semiotic of
pillow
and screen

mastering those rules as
my imagination candle lit
by
   this quite
precious fabric  melody
of voices

perfect duet
Tom
    and Dominic
(Dominic and Tom)