Monday, March 11, 2013

Contra Dance

My heart is fed by so many tributaries
and spits and splits at least two ways!
How difficult to keep straight
what quickens circulation, who eases its pace:
a lose-lipped smile here, fingers dancing on letters there;
the openness of letting and the strung bow;
the tight wanting of one truth and still, wide planes
that laugh at those.

What is love if not a contra dance
where many arms spin many beings,
where we share the floor - no one's territory -
and the music moves the mood we've got to ache with to obey?

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