I’m auditing theses in time or opinion  
For an interpretive opera about local accents.
I listen for: Ya, 
It’s a question of escalating to inhabit received logic.  
I’mretracting what I think I hear, why ya, I’m 
Concentrating on songs from colors, naming touching sounds.  
Oblique accents patrol in symmetry, in a body
 
Like yours, pushing the most obvious among woken arts, song 
Gripping you, on slanted footing under your influence. 
 
Ha baby.