Musicians

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MUSICIANS

We are singing
together
a duet in progress
the tune learned from each others' lips,
plucked from each others' tongues
written in skin
Sweetness of sixth and third
Passed mouth to mouth
voice to voice
I learn to trust
To follow
In the shifting
Unfamiliar patterns of your song
Find the hidden logic of your spiral path
Find ways to bring that sweetness out again
You make allowances
Re-learn the simple and familiar
For me Draw closer in the learning
Reach and give me another reason
to feel safe with you
this is composition and performance both
intricate collaboration
constant improvisation
variations on familiar themes
searching for elusive resolution
dissonance giving way to harmony
a refrain cherished in fingertips and tongue
that returns again and again
a piece written by and for the both of us
a piece that we can only write together