Wed Jul 13th, 2016
When Lively
Conversation stamps a dance
without set pattern
although it will set patterns
improvised in the moment:
patterns of association
and linked ideas
moving like spears of sunlight.
or index of a book,
or diagram of a vault
that opens to wealth
the participants can’t imagine
because good conversation
remains a conception
like the kicking growth
of an abdomen pregnant
with a child who will
cry out with surprise at birth
in first conversation
with all who are present
at the sheer wonder
of what the human voice
can do.