Literature
The Ballet
Enter…
Clodhopping feet
Entwined in blocks
Cutting ribbon
Like clowns
Hammer hits string-
Pull up, tense every muscle
Toes extend, calves tighten
Pull up, to heights
Beyond nature's plans
Pain, ache, tensed
Bar 2…
Spring into movement
Twirling pirouette
Faster faster
En arierre
Posé, pose
Turning whirling
I take the very air
The light
Twisting weave it
Into rainbows
I breathe the very music
It is my oxygen
Bar 12…
Grand jeté
Higher, higher
Assemblés
Elevation, power
This is strength
Calves and thighs like rocks
Stomach in
Shoulders down
Neck long
Straining at every limb
Taught and working
The perfect mac