MY DANCE PARTNER My shadow could be any age, sharpened to a T by a stare-me-down sun. My sideways self gliding across the straw and chaff tells me as we walk of how things were, or how things might have been. Like skidding down a slope on scree, laughing, breathless, like a fool, or floating, masked face down, watching tiny silver fish amongst the casual treasures of Salamis. Or watching your back from a high window, your right hand lifting a lock of hair as you climb into the cab, the last cab. Shadow blessing, shadow curse, shadow, my dance partner until the sun’s at rest and they turn out the light.
I'm a post-retirement Drama teacher, currently working part-time. I have a grown-up son and daughter, three grandchildren and three young children from my second marriage. I write - principally poetry but prose too, both fitfully published. My poetry collection Ancient Lights is published by Phoenicia Publishing (www.phoeniciapublishing.com) and my translation of Blaise Cendrars' 'Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France' (illustrated by my friend, the artist, writer and long-time blogger Natalie d'Arbeloff) is published by Old Stile Press (www.oldstilepress.com).
I play bass guitar & bouzouki in the song-based acoustic/electric trio Moorby Jones, playing entirely original material.
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I love the imagers you create on my head.
Thank you very much, Irene.
I love this. My head fills with images, smells and sensations as I read.thanks Dick.
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Many thanks for the kind words. I’m so pleased that it works for you.
Another fine piece but there is sadness in it. Just keep dancing.
Thank you, Anna. Yes, but just the usual tempus fugit melancholy, which taps on the window now and then. In between, the dance goes on!