DANCE POEMS

A reader asked for some more of these dance poems, so I have posted a few more. These are from the New York City Ballet's "Dancer's Choice" performance in June and are from excerpts of ballets, and thus a little shorter than poems accompanying complete pieces. A couple of people have expressed interest in seeing the Dance Poems collected in a small chapbook like my Film Poems, as a kind of companion volume. Anybody interested in publishing such a project?

JEROME ROBBINS
“DANCERS AT A GATHERING” (EXCERPT)

  spangled        peek

 all the day gnomon

in garden
  summit

 mounting        fanfare


arrest  diagonal

divining        ground



 center

 plasm  akimbo

  floater

 bow

strider   white
  astride

   pulsar

   noble

trace
 filigree  slither


orbit

  velocity

  taper

rush  line