Acknowledge the drum's whisper. <br />Yield to its velvet <br />Nudge. Cut a slow air- <br />Curve. Then dip (hip to hip): <br />Sway, swing, pedantically <br />Poise. Now recover, <br />Converting the coda <br />To prelude of sway-swing- <br />Recover. <br /> Acknowledge <br />The drum-crack's alacrity - <br />Acrid exactitude - <br />Catch it, then slacken, <br />Then catch as cat catches <br />Rat. Trace your graph: <br />Loop, ellipse. Skirt an air-wall <br />To bend it and break it - <br />Thus - so - <br />As the drum speaks! <br /> <br /> <br />Submitted by Stephen Fryer<br /><br />Arthur Seymour John Tessimond<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/quickstep/
