Nov 27, 2011

DANCE POEMS


CANYON
John Jasperse


                                                                        Canary gyre
           
            pinballs & bumpers
                                    pale jig flag
solo
clackety-split                        wake
                                                sparkler trail

                                                coriolis


cloud chamber

                                    overhead











                                    diagonal
                                                pause



roving box
                                                                        await
shadow









                                    worry

                                                            days


                        over edge
                                    puppet falls




                                    time to go            on point




                        stutter




                                                aglow

                                                let go


                        pulse
                                                ship creak


a back



                        comport

            the way a hand knows letters in the dark

atomic


                        blip white


                                                obelisk

                                                            windmills




along rivers                                    all together now


                                                spin cycle

                        planted
                                                a forest

for the trees                                    reaching out

                                                dumb slalom





                        finds
                                                the mirror







                        tracking            listing





                                                scissor legs





                                                hopper slide

            behind


            dust devil










                                    bird head







                                                dead others

                        transact





fauna
            flux                        mantis                                    because

            astir in
the margins



                                                drum walk


rag walk


                                                waltz






                        Rorschach topple


                        tented


                                    star





                                    center


                        stylus


            like a lock groove



interfere

                                    loving


                        cant

                                    fell


                                                            arrive
                                                absorb                        include


                                                            alit



                                                            unspun

                                                            semaphore


                                                            glow





                        erase                                    return





                                                                                    jetsam
                        spider
                        climb

                                                                        rolling arpeggio




going                                                                                    lifted

                                    gowned


                                    ground


                                    cog nonsense

                                    sway rotate
                                                                                    rain twirl


                                    caster
                                                                                    casting


throb
symphonic
                                                            stalked

                                    stoked

                                                            above

                                                            areach

                                                                        delta
                        freed




                                                fed

virgin                                                                        swathe


                        sate
                        together


                                                                        spun sprung
                                                                       
                                                                        foot.