Friday, December 27, 2019

dancing in my body










eyes turned inward
perfect body
born of woman
betrayed by man
melted in inferno like plastic melted
molded
     fused
          charred
               twisted
                    tormented
a moment of Searing Anger?
Supreme Narcissism
Defiant I Am!
in a world where No-one else matters

He got out
his nearness to the door
he Ran
as the sisters writhed in flames
as he hightailed it down the road in terror
as the walls collapsed
as the sisters’ screams echoed
in the mountain passes
down the halls of dawning
flames flickering against the night sky
paling to morning
the sirens careening up the hillside
bouncing
echoing from the cliffs and ledges

small cabin turned to ash and smold’ring
two girls lives forever changed
shed skin
     shed bone
          shed dreams
first person/third person
I knew who I was in an endless instant
I’m not that girl any more

light on her feet
she danced in her body memory
of movement 
memory
of youth and perfection
a snakeskin not to be shed
rather lived in

her dance changes
sinuous whirling like flame
sparking upwards 
            into the sunrise
another fire
this one in her soul




© 2019 pamela twining

photo: Dina Peone 

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