Shawm

[eredien]

The shawm plays wild
skipping and jumping the
dancers reel
like the notes
unused to this
music we
dancers
we dance
to this thing
sends out tones
as a hummingbird hovers
first over this flower then that
alights
moves
now gone
dashes on to the next
dancer in the ring
in the dance whirling the shawm
the shawm whirling
the dancers along in a ring

memory is a thing
moving as the shawm moves
all is sounded approximate
a swarm of gnats cannot be said to be circling
but what else do you call these thoughts
these
tiny dancers?

The Medieval Shawm has an MP3.