Dance with me a Moment
Late in this Last Extinction²
The Soul has Moments of Escape –
When Bursting all Doors, we Dance³
The Dance is always Danced above the
Hollow place, above the Terrible Abyss⁴
Dancing is the Soul’s Radiance, the Urn
Of free Passion … the Dancers empty their
Personalities to receive the Raw flux of Spirit⁵
People Dance – and have no notion of Walking⁶
Tomorrow … who Knows? Dance Today!⁷
We Dance to Ask Pardon of the Gods⁸
Celebrate daybreak in an Enthusiastic
Dance – and express deep Oneness
With Surging, Radiating Elements⁹
A Body remembers music by the
Hollow Dancing it leaves behind¹⁰
¹ Anonymous, The Irish Dancer
² Sam Sax, Prayer for the Mutilated World
³ Emily Dickinson, The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
⁴ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
⁵ Mary Gaitskill, Folk Song
⁶ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
⁷ Langston Hughes, Harlem Night Club
⁸ Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
⁹ Hermann Hesse tr. Richard & Clara Winston, Magister Ludi
¹⁰ George Abraham, Post-Script: Against Consolidation