dance

27 ballet dancers, dboo

forms the soul takes:

____wind
____the combined movement of tree branches
____the sound of electric guitars
____the eerie blue of the cloudless LA sky

it is soo big.
(too big to be localized)

in pianists, sometimes, for a flicker or two
(a fluorescent light mid-seizure)
you see it pass in a tremor,

mothers can do better,
throats are amazing when women cry.

how then to?
____(take the blue sky
________(tree's grace)
____circumscribe to skin's blanket:
____fit a cathedral in a mousetrap?)

(suspend a wristwatch mid Wednesday/
levitate beauty/
conspire against mortality:

cage the soul,
some few moments,
confiscate it to just one body
(give it eyes and hair and gluteals)
____(the universe panics, having momentarily lost a tulip at a trainstation)

and as it escapes:
unexorcises itself,
shakes an apple loose,
jumps twice beyond a rainbow's reach,
drinks the wine of a cello,
transmutes into a swan, star, stalagmite,
____(engine, dust, stag, too-strayed-far-to-return-anything

But for some few moments,
i saw the outline
of all infinity


(and trembled and cried