Drum Circle
On Saturday
I will load my congas and djembe
into the old, government-green pickup truck
and drive two hours north.
The farm runs wild with trees and people
caught between growing and dying;
brambles, weeds, and broken stuff hang in the rhythm;
secrets that smell like tractor grease
drift
from the rusted-out buildings.
I do not watch their hands
or mine;
I enter the rhythm through their eyes:
nameless friends
coaxing their souls out of the song of the drum,
the air, bent
with hands and sweat.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXAXXX XXXXAXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 7 |
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