Conversations at a Party - a reading (on YouTube)
Slaty and sultry.
Humid and hep.
My facade breaks as I face away from laughter.
Behind me, conversations rise and fall like ancient empires,
Each bounded by a brief dark age.
Polite, politic introductions and animated reunions
Compete with the choreographed exotic soundtrack.
Then a squall sends everyone scattering toward screened-in stillness
Until the sky brightens
And the conversation warms as the night air cools
Humid and hep.
My facade breaks as I face away from laughter.
Behind me, conversations rise and fall like ancient empires,
Each bounded by a brief dark age.
Polite, politic introductions and animated reunions
Compete with the choreographed exotic soundtrack.
Then a squall sends everyone scattering toward screened-in stillness
Until the sky brightens
And the conversation warms as the night air cools
Once
again refreshed.
© 2012 Edward P. Morgan III
