Stephanie Dancing
I was younger. I was half-awake.
I watched Stephanie dance. She
moved like spheres intersecting.
The music was room-size.
The crowd swayed toward me
then away. I did not do much.
The night held terrors even as the
day held back. I only wanted
everything back then. I only wanted
Stephanie to stop dancing, to talk
to me the way angels talk to ecclesiasts.
Stephanie Dancing 2
Let’s say Stephanie Dancing
is a symbol. Let’s say it
represents something like lost
youth, beauty unattainable.
Now, let’s take Stephanie
Dancing
and put it on the credenza.
It looks almost jaunty there, a
fishbowl full of diamonds.
Whenever there are guests they
stop and glimmer, oh I see
you have Stephanie Dancing.
And I say, sadly, maybe disingenuously,
No
one can have Stephanie Dancing.
Everyone nods, lost in thought.
This is the power of Stephanie
Dancing. This is its Oracular Office.
