Poems

Where We Want to Be

Twisting through the dancing crowd,
leaping to her own wild beat,
the strawberry nyphe eats music,
screams joy above her whirling feet,
as her boy asks the air,
"Is this where we want to be?"

Overheard at the 2003 Grassroots Festival, Trumansburg, New York, USA

Crossing Stone Fences
Beading
Snake Creek
Vestibule
Death of a Nephew
Just the Right Gate
Fields of Silhouette
Silence
Where We Want to Be
It's About Time
Seneca Sky
Bad Morning in Geneva
Skins
A Trace of Romance
Peaches
From Kentuky
Hope's History
Bobbing in the Wind
Texas is Straight Ahead
Missing Your Mind



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Don Ellis
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Last update November 16, 2005