swish of calico skirts
“swing your partner—do-SE-do”
on the swept barn floor
entertainment
Speak-Easy
pretty ladies dancing
in dark satin dresses
smoke-filled speak-easy
Off-Beat
street musicians
their flutes so eloquent – the drummer
is out of sync
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(Or so said my daughter, who has a keen ear for music. We were listening to a group of Peruvian street musicians one evening in Montreal and I was so absorbed in the poignant beauty of their flutes I never noticed the drum.)