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The Fiddler’s Eye

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Saturday night dance

fiddle and bow in hand

tools of my trade

Rockin’ rhythms

Grease up that bow, girl,

lay into it

until she wails,

cries out in a surrogate voice

our pain and ecstasy

speaks the monster’s lines

lulls our babes

to sleep sweet dreams

 

Ah, my Victorian lady,

your impossible waist

harbors modern tones

among the old. . .

Each time I play you

new things happen

inside us both. . .

 

Knitted up whole

in a tune-trance,

time slips sideways

I enter the music,

become it

dance inside the tune

on the edge,

balancing,

reaching for rhythms

to bounce off dancers

who anticipate me,

bounce my beat

Back

Back

Back

 

This is a duet

Dancers and music

locked in

perpetual motion

until . . .

Entropy disproven,

We alight together

on new ground

 

© Donna Hébert, 1995, all rights reserved. Photo © Karen Clark 2004, all rights reserved.

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