Monday, February 25, 2019

UNTITLED


We loved our bodies
 what they could do
   what we could do
       with them.

Radiant

Shapely  

Perfected
 in heat
   and
 provocation

Making prayers
 from rude animal energy.

We loved our bodies
 what they could do
   what we could do
     with them.

Quiet as sand
 nestled
   grain to grain

Settled
 into shapes

Graceful
 as dusk
   and dunes.

RW
02.24.2019
Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico

In the misty seventies, I got to hang with beautiful and young dancers, thrilled with creativity. The other night, R. and I watched Billy Eliott. His joy reminded me

(photo: usbdata - otherwise unattributed)

1 comment:

  1. Good poem. I like the effective parallel to dunes. Your sand dune photo reminded me of sensuous dune images by Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keefe. For a raunchier song on a similar theme: “Body was Made” by Ezra Thurman.
    Bob Sather (from Las Golondrinas)

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