Duet in the Desert

Duet in the Desert
By Jane Zwart

Every duet sung in the desert
is a mirage. Memorized chords
carried to a less arid place

will not sing the same. The note, 
once a pebble, becomes 
sprouted grain; that is, it suffers

just the miracle Christ refused 
another tenor, the lucifer he found
singing chimeras over the sand.

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Jane Zwart
Professor & Co-Director of the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

Jane Zwart’s work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, and Image Journal.

Photography by Jack Harding