To Hear the Drummers

Nine o'clock,
there is no one here to hear the drummers,
but he is of no mind to go back out.
Then come some,
in by twos, a man, a woman,
and another couple, in from the night.
Then the stage
quiets down to near-full silence,
as two hands just tune and four more critique.
As more come
and drummers drum, the beat pursues him
(ten minutes until ten) into the night.

To Hear the Drummers

Bob Komives

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