Dancing on the Beach

Sunlight slips past unnoticed
as she marks her spot
in the sand

lit from behind
a gargantuan wash of
burnt embers
fortell the bonfires



unconcerned she starts
the song...
a beat, stacatto rhythm
electric drums
crooner calls
passion
to passion





a breeze unease
homeless in her wake
hips and pelvis
turn and twist


limbs respond, reverb
and sway taking off
she flies across
hardpacked sand
crashing waves

lost in trance
alive with fire
a moving spirit
pulls her up
and knocks her down


twirls her
across
to the other side
of
her dream


and those left watching
remain unseen

After Breaking

Stabbed to bleeding but not to
detachment
limping with stinging discomfort
to remind the offender of
his crime

Days pass in relative
sameness
Familiar sun, shining on the same
tree branches
same food filling an unhungry
belly and
mixing it all up
flipping it all inside and
out

Slowing beside Rapids

Bluer and bluer again the sky
dwarfed us
we walked, pausing
beside rushing waters
swirling eddies of multidirectional
currents
seeming a rush of unified onslaught
revealed at odds
apart
perpendicular in their
pursuit
of the downstream haven
mesmerized and wishing to
go down
down
down
without losing
self
amidst
unwelcome comrades


saved at last
we found one
hairy arachnid and
one slovenly caterpillar
to join us back on land
free from the pull
of the whirlpool
free to walk in
two straight lines
touching only
where our fingers brushed
one another