The Unlikely Pair

I’m seventy. Don and I met twenty three years ago.
I used to joke about the mix, but now I take it seriously…stone sober.

The Unlikely Pair

Don hides out
And surfs on line.
Digital man
Skimming circuits.
HTML
Data man.

I perform
With music
Song
And poetry
In technicolor.

He locks on to
Symbols
Math
And video;
Wrings it out
For pleasure.

I hum
And swing
Gyrate
And grin
To the rhythm.

We’re a pair:
One grounded
One airborne;
One plugged in
One tethered.

Together
We explore.
Adventure.
Envision.
And take care.

It’s energy we share.
An unlikely pair!

by Jeanne Poland  9/11/11