DANCE POEMS

 

PINA BAUSCH

“Vollmond”

                        Fossil wedge

clock-arm

                        syntax

            thrum

 scythe cycle

            worm pendulum

                        maladroit

lever

            centrifuge

                                    can’t

            wraith kiss

trunk air noble grower twist

            shadow bug lake

                        old cavern hurler

                                    she

                                    faun legs

            hand gauge

                                    all the people

                                    dove line

            plash

            akimbo

                                    hair flame skein

            crone wing

                                    knob

            flap

tock

wrest screwbird

bound              geist

black                taper

                        scuttle

line rung

            was wrong shadow

lock rain push

Kali

            salt       embrace

            shade   clap

sphinx             harper

                        lamprey

linear

                        flight fright

                        char                 aural

                                    clime

                                    wait

shillelagh rain

                                    water glyph

                                                ponder

ripple glimmer

                        reflexive

                        piston

                                    torment ape

            drop arc

            windmill

            ink hair scuttle

            sufi was the sky

lawn water chiaroscuro

            strobe orb

                        seal

                                    troll

            orange sin

                                    odalisque ruby

            dour

                        weeping

                                    song

            poppy wrath

                        crux churn

            kiss

spider              shadow

            thank hands

                        robot

                        morn

the precarious plight

            of a body

            in the wind.

                        Lever pull

still crux

                        over sun circle

            sun body

                                    jack

plough fluid

            her

was repose

                        bridge cast

moon damp sprite

was a shadow

speech hair

                        wound

                        freeze

                        sob

            storm

shone               was

fur

            body wheel

                        tumble

moon atmosphere

           

            hush slush

            slosh

                        molecule

                                    ritual

            clock

                        speech

            snake

            nebula arc

                                    storm man

            lush spark

            paper-eating

            trembling

                                   

                                    waltz

            burst

                        aorta

            like swimming

debris slop

hurl

spurt rain

            paint dress

blood

            erased

cushion

            framed

            gargoyle pull

was down over

the light

            ibis

            rain

                                    a

                                    s

            script

            spark

            repeat

was      together

            what was

            the doer not his

                        oval

copper shrine

                        sheet

            twinned

            trimmed

                        sylph lost

what was that at

            the rain

mechanism

                        kinetic

            supple

                        beach

            hand

breath

            rising

                                    salt & pepper

                        wave

            flower venom

                        overwhelm

phase

                        meant light

            human

                        further

DANCE POEMS

ÁNGEL CORELLA
“STRING SEXTET”

Movement 1.
Braid arc

 cowseye clockwork

brusher

   fold point

 aerial

   sculpt

reverse

   scissor

 gaze  focal

  engine of
mirrors
 burnish
  oval

landscape  skirmish

 Reina  elope
  ripple
  strand
   coterie
    slash


 ripple
  pace dull
armature

Movement 2.

 Apparition film  semaphore


  wraith  nymph  circuit
ingot   gloam


    shun  sable


     tandem
rectify      magnet

compass feet  lately  dangle

  broken  reign

Movement 3.

Snow  cavalcade


alleles 


  maestro

    flayed


 everything is order  stage

pile  layer

 Miró  line

   eraser

Movement 4.

  Arch  swing

river  loop
    gazelle

  dim comet spool

  shadow after

ricochet
  ablaze

  
  water hammer
  wall

windmill  figure

churns  blossom train

tree  Othello  diagonal symmetry

taken   starry


    asterisk move

  more

   spun balls

limning white
    film

grommet


  diurnal

  schism below

    flower popping

branch logic

DANCE POEMS

LEONID LAVROVSKY
“WALPURGISNACHT”

 
  Verdure
   equinox

 loam spirit

   brazen

 shift

  over-

  feral
 satyr  lurch

  hover

  doer

 bridge chasm slider

 green


  fire


   aisle

  over  dove

 trestle
pinion  gambol



  hoof staccato

 archer  over drill

  fracture scalpel


  echolalia
  velocity











  crimson peaked



  petal
     drift

  chaser


  spider frond

rim splice

  leaper  carrier

 
  lift  likely
     dusk

DANCE POEMS

 
MARÍA PAGÉS
“SOLEÁ”
                        String                        breath
            weary                        circuit
                        divide                        interior
            so
blue                                    long
last
            reliquary                        bridge
                        brown
            flame            gnome
                        simmer
            grave
            graven
                                    burn
magenta
                                    blossom
beat
            aorta                        pulse
                        riser—
                                    schist
                        mill                        motion-
            graver
                                    earth
oil
                                                row
                                                            fire

DANCE POEMS

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON
“DGV: DANSE  À
GRAND VITESSE”


            Ambient            slide
hopper
                        sheer            wing
            Maya
                                    furl

                        eidolon                        shadow


veil
                        metal
                                                
                        gnomon
            plough
                                    prow
                                                mast
            level                        spire
            emerger
                                    sable
            framer-
                                    arachnid
rewind
over                        glum
                                                regent
                        
                        air
dance
            rafter
                                    placer
            
                                    ad
infinitum
                        gesture
giant
            brusher                                    taper
            
                        leap                                    whelm
            taker
                        jitter                        careener
                                                dream            carry
                        delve
                                                            closer
                        procession
                        speaker                        commence
runner
                                    piston
            wrist
                        flicker            vaudeville
            run
line                        dissolver
            TV
            waver
                                                folly
            lantern
                                                float
                                                flora
                        Abraxas            tongue
            O
so            carried
                        benign            grasp
                                    melt
pause
                        agile                        caesura
                        upon            intimate            swim
                                    after
slider
                        prey
lift
                                                tally
                                    last
lost crowd
                        wings
backstage
                                                tamer
            retravel
                                                drink
            bird
torso
swing lower
                                    revealer
            tremolo
            tumult
                        re
waterfy
                                    creep
roll
                        chaser
over
                        pacer                        least
long
            over
                                    glimmer            congeries
            return
                        
                        turn                        sketch
                        ground            rise
                        
                                                emblem
rise
to                        
                                                white
broad
                                                serial
re-spin
                        
                        syncopate            green
            
                        farewell
            
                                    thrum
motion            pearl
                        gate
parcel
                        palpable
                                                was
intoned
mannequin
                                    triumph
                        revolver
                                                                        down
                        lane            temple
                                    speed
                                    chiaroscuro
branch                                                            field
                        steeper            steeple
                        arm
crucible continuum
                        heart
head shadow
                        blinking            sheen
stutter                        around                        hung
edge                        nearer            away
            focal                        mane
                        crosser
                                                maker
            spanner
body future
                        wheelbarrow
                                                line
            run            into
                        lissome            weave
                        carried

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by Angela Veronica Wong (20 pp. Saddle-Stitched w/ Die-Cut Stars) $7 ppd.

In to know this Angela Veronica Wong maps the constellation of the body and its desires.  The life of a star is the life of a person.  Wong's spare, precise lines chart a firmament that is both celestial and down-to-earth.


From to know this
by Angela Veronica Wong

* 
                                   to know stars die:
in wartime, countries
trade bodies for prisoners.
what is more valuable—a body
symbolic, or a body alive?  would you
trade for mine would i want
to trade for yours      is it
the body or the wanting
my want of your body my want
for your body to be my body or maybe just
next to my body       animals curled
in water     this is how I wish
to be – warmth       belonging       the L next to an S
somewhere between the meeting and the knowing
the wanting and the having
like clean sheets on a bed
hints of what is to come.

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Responding to Cy Gist Press editor Mark Lamoureux's call for poets to do more translation, Joel Sloman created this homophonic, stereoscopic, phantasmagoric "translation" of the work of Austrian poet Georg Trakl.  Sloman makes a sock poet of the author's solemn memory, dragging Trakl dumfounded into our contemporary world of Robin Williams films, scones and hip-hop workboots.   With a fetching (pun intended) cover by Kate Ledogar.  In the words of the author, "It's fucking hot, Snowy!"

Sanja
by Joel Sloman

A strange woman wearing a green sweater walks by

Open trucks with hoses guard alterations

Sonja’s legs rest on a chair, she is reviled

Cold regulates bums and hobos

I wave to the sightseers on the trolley

Sunflowers and more sunflowers are delighted

By Sonja’s white interpretation of reggae

Red snow—wondrous—bubbles

A blue clerk wears a muscle tee

Sonja’s shirt is dry cleaned, fumes

Tiers of turbans grates England

Ali’s young daughter wears a long red dress with silver sequin patterns

Sonja sips a thick mocha shake

Her son tags along after her

Her sage brow acknowledges loneliness

Her shirt is too stiff, it crackles

Extensions to her blond hair pinned

She’s disturbed, returns to England

Whatever happened to Neil Hornick?

Subterfuge of sunflowers!

The colors of blooms are already autumnal

A loitering, itinerant red wound

Jumps onto Sonja’s thigh

Yolks and whites break up, no more reggae

The Poetics of New York City

Watch a man leave a woman
in Columbus Circle, trees blowing
as in summer in Indian Summer,
the arches of the fountain-water
blowing in the wind that blows
up from Broadway, in Indian Summer, two
brothers leave in their skullcaps;
a woman alone composing photos,
everyone is beautiful who the wind
blows hair across their face, as though
at sea, the statue’s anchors frozen,
like sorrow is a jade tree,
pistachio green in the white lights
of the fountain that are eyes
in blood, portals. This is
the poetics of the city, how fever
infests every goosefleshed silence,
the thighs of the women in their skirts,
jackhammers, a schizophrenic snaps
the mirror off a car like a fruit
to be eaten, smashes up his teeth,
in Indian Summer, this is the poetics
of New York City.

DANCE POEMS

WILLIAM FORSYTHE
“Decreation”

Window strut

    crow


line bug spin


 robo slug


    skin walk


 neo- foot


   erotics


   spinner wall

in backup


   twiddle

 3
  drawer

  
   choke

  lift

 rump


mist
   sphinx



    slap

     roar

 heat


    table

9 step

  pinion pile

 drive

  asterisk
  orbit


   lightning

 dinner  spun


table water



   chair
  raven



 construct figure amoeba


  experience


    sword

said

  spake

stake

  knead
  
   brass

 bolt

   crash

 orbit

   fire

 over swivel


melt

   base

 plinth

  jagged





melee

  burst

 gore


  percolate




rip

  here

   gore


 torpor

   gasp


HATE

 over


last   other


  photo

   hand

hand
 fingers

 freeze

  when

 broke



star
fist
was
  first


 stall







 

 pair




  blast



siren

over

sharp

base was


  drip


  loon


oval  lotus

 arrow

 
 hand blossom



lens  of
  push


kneel
  stiffen

 arraign  blast

face other

   face
  her

  was
  switch
  itch


scratch

  sodden




  eyes
  was

 hurt hold

  rife




  splay

  ego

  over

   cruel
   air

  furnace

 break


was listing bumper

push hustle torpor


 was

   space

 lost

in

 
  look

 might  walk

  walker


   storm


bird

  scythe

 blank water washed


  maestro


rate


  interrogate

 rattle  tale

 fire  crouched


   leap hand
    harp



    scraper

 jangley

   over


   spear

spare

  
   blast
   burst

 ship drum

  causes
  boom


tussle

  trestle

  din

white

false  static

  window

  over

   said



 split
 self

   back


hanger
  once


 clay

  paper

   furl


 order
 sun
 blank


pop   frail

 wick

   angled


  pupa

blood
gift
scepter

   dust
 telegraph scapula

 arch beast


   clock

    dust