Tango with me By Thomas A. Thrun

Push the chairs

and the cafe tables

back against the wall.

Tango with me on the 

black and white 

tiled floor.  Tangle

your legs with mine 

where on a sultry

hot summer’s night 

the air blows the 

cafe's curtains, and 

your skirt billows and

flows to the tense beat

of the tango music

still heard in the dark

up the back stairs.

Thomas A. Thrun, a former weekly newspaper editor in Wisconsin and Washington State, recently was diagnosed in his retirement, with T2 diabetes, with complications of neuropathy to his legs and feet.  Not to mention sever weight and muscle loss, along with arthritis now in his spine.  His beer intake now is limited, but a shot of whiskey or Wisconsin brandy still go down fine.  Look for him in the 2024 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.