all-important context

Like many, I feel as though a different part of my brain is accessed when i listen to music - because it is. poetry, music, fluid conversation resembles both. language has rhythm, if he who uses it is deft of word. when two people engage in a conversation that's meaningful there is a fluidity like no other and not just because of the words used in fact often in spite of them; unspoken undercurrents,flirtation in every sense of the term and in every sense of the speaker.

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getting to the heart of the matter

two conversations, in quick succession
the first longer, more disjointed, the second
with more purpose but with the all-important
grounding, basis of the first; context.

and following both the music and this,
this, is the ocean beneath, the cavern
and awakened is the heart and opened is
the can, worms, warts, all asunder.

laid bare in the most pleasing way,
the tumbling words of the naive poet
borne against the twinged light of age
filtered, dark soul to confused brow.