Dance
The eyes of these dancers - queerly askew of the order of rhythm the rest of the body obeys - uncoiling averse to the limbs’ lightest cue
Toward the coincident audience the others the contrary eyes also followers of imitation’s most static law dilated
Though turning each fixed on another still black circle just as empty
About which this ornate facsimile of life gestures and spins unseen
Published in Pine Cone Review, November 2022: https://thepineconereview.com/glissade-poetry-dance-by-merrill-cole/
