drmstream[writing]

The impulse in song

What wants to sing,
to thresh the air with sound
and watch the chaff rise,
lift, grab, ele­vate, erupt

Into a line of song
that makes me want
to swing my legs to and fro,
snap my fin­gers like this?

The ball of my foot pushes
on the wood floor so I can see
my other self — the musi­cal self –
leap softly into the melody.