From several yeas ago......

SPYGLASS

You watch her dance

    - See the whole show

    Watch her leap across the stage,

    Her body smiling, shouting, singing rage

    and love

    and hope.

    You see her through a kaleidoscope.

    The turning of your toy

    Translates her moves

    Stutters her spins

    Staccatos her grooves

    Turns her suspended arms

    her reaching legs

    her flowing gown

    Into falling fractals of color

    Splattering down.

    The swivel of her hips

    Is now a triangular twist.

    The curving smile, the hot blood pulsing 

    Are ruby crystals sliding into place.

    Her warm, watercolor tears

    Are a rainbow of iced glitter

    Sprinkled down her face.

    Put down the toy, my dear.

    See the live show.

    Change the action from flutter to flow

    From glisten to glow

    Release the dancer

    Who would live, love, say so much

    Free her, please, with one

    Warm touch.