He's called the underground poet laureate of downtown Minneapolis. She is an internationally starring avant-garde singer/songwriter. With his gritty, street-wise verse and her dark, lush voice, they are forging , words and music that meld ancient Alexandria and medieval Paris with Neo-Platonism and baseball in a lyrical crucible fired by love and war and the mystical vision - with Rich Patterson on guitar, David Gullickson on drums.