The
Drummer
Like the
life-force of the primaeval
forests, the
drummer improvised his drum-
beats with
feline-eyes gleaming
in the penumbra
until the rhythm
of his
intuition resonated with the dancers
and spurred one
dancer to the dance
floor tearing
into a mad tarantella
thumping the
wooden floor
bending,
shaking, twisting his sweat-
drenched torso into
a totemic trance
until drum,
dancer, and spectator
were blurred in an oceanic haze.
Dr. Emily Bilman is a widely published and anthologized author of poetry, literary essays, and short stories. Her PhD dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry, was published by Lambert Academic in 2010. Slatkine S.A. published La rivière de soi (2010) in Geneva. Modern Ekphrasis (2013) was published by Peter Lang Academic, CH. Her poetry books, A Woman by A Well (2015), Resilience (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018), Apperception (2020), and The Undertow (2023) were all published by Matador Books UK that just pre-published a new version of Resilience (2025). Her sonnet, “Pathfinder” has been planted on the moon’s southern pole by a time-capsule in 2024. She blogs on http://www.emiliebilman.wix.com/emily-bilman
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