WHEN I AM DANCING

When I am dancing

I see the faces of people I’ve loved

Feel them close by

The ones who betrayed me

The ones I lost when our paths parted

The ones on the other side

Who visit me in dreams.

As I dance, you are with me

You and you and you

My bones lose their gravity

They’re smooth as pearl,

As full of light

Dancing, I remember

The love story of being;

The tip of the stamen,

The tender whorl of the petal.

Immortal unswerving liquefied shimmering

Sunflower

Starlight

Dance.

(Dedicated to the music of Van Morrison, whose music helps me clean the kitchen late at night. My favorites: Brown Eyed Girl, Crazy Love, Domino, Wild Night, Jackie Wilson Said, Moondance. Picture is of me and my friend Beanie Odell, a fellow Irish fiddle woman, rocking out to reels and jigs.)