foxtrot for poetry

1.

don’t worry.

I know the steps.

I will teach you.

I’m hot to foxtrot

and you’ll be hot, too.

let’s hit the floor

because it’s late and

we haven’t much time.

I've been in love

with "goodnight sweetheart"

drifting slowly, so romantic! but—

2.

did you know

Robert Browning

penned a foxtrot?..

said it was

Andrea Del Sarto!..

said it was faultless!

who can argue?

and we'll be faultless, too;

the breath of the song

filling the space between us.

there's the whistle!

follow my lead and

let's dance, my love!