Fay Slimm.

Duet

 

Duet.

I shall remember 
this silver-sheened treble of streamside  
sweet songster trills
coupled with pebbly ripples describing
recondite meeting 
in darkling-deep shadow of melodious
symphonics with  
brilliant white, pinned-to-sky myriads 
of starry-eyed
listeners set on winking stellar applause 
for singing in concord
as liquid joins bird in dulcet duet under  
night\'s dense cover.

I try to write but
pen has to cease as moon, head in mist 
of covert cloudlets
peeps out on a nightingale\'s drenching 
of resounding air 
with water-lapped choral song that my   
verse wishes to share.