Two in the Wilderness

together 
in waiting,
punctuated 

movements 
(pause)

I am a valley, I
a river
here 
we converge

the scene resists 
landscape,
they wade in pages.

speaking is tongues
words words words

historical recitations
recitatated re-r-
esuscitated mouthof 
mouthfulof
man 
mouth ofaman

shakespeare’s throat
wheezes poetic
death rattle chest
dreams on the
death bed

thou doth pulse
soft,
mouth of a woman

tethered lips
to another’s
neuroses.

historical recitations,
addresses audience
exclamations
(pause)
devastated

here, converge
wading through
pages, 
movements
punctuated,
space (pause)