dance lessons
monday, wednesday plié a bending. pretending to be hung cabinets from the kitchen spoons, sequins sewed mirroring another Jennifer. jeté jeté to break thursday. tropical pitchers, monkey cups. a leg stretched attempts perfection, harrowing stops. if ever doubted music such as steep, stir, sizzle and sweep. pas de bourrée as falling she never once spun.
[part 2]
of czestochowa invading
tartars (a little patter, footsteps)*
huffed and arrow pierced
my neck
sabers twice cheek
(where my shoulders)
scarred heroic
painting millions of wax
attempts to break
failing we compare treachery
a mutiny of pokes, purple, barbs &
jabs sun and vandals tear
an overdress of pearls
*The number of sheep has quadrupled in the past two decades. Their individual weight also doubled, as farmers shifted to heavier breeds; a sheep hoof exerts similar levels of pressure to a tractor.
[part 3]
with her numerous
causeways movable tubes carefully she lay she
stayed an arm astonishingly pink call her
sweetie make her need just
bury her a sort of excavation then
this site i wrote of a spot
withdrawn the bars we swung
from doesn’t know these
betrayals inaccessible i want to ask
back mutterings as she might
night lie to resent dirt grass