she’s finally left
the home she knows
circle dance
holding hands
with smiling
strangers
and the man
she loves
the sun
is a circle
it is about that
they dance
yet not really
about
she
is the subject
unknown
even to herself
and all
about her
she is home
yet doesn’t know
/ / /
I knew immediately which dance/movie/character I wanted to write about when I saw the video at Poem Tryouts: Will You Dance? at Wordgathering. Thanks, Margo.
I won’t tell you which movie it’s from. But it is featured in the video. In one of those cases of synchronicity that cannot be ignored, I had watched this movie the day before with my wife and younger son. I had remembered a scene from the movie that moved me the first time I saw it; but it was this scene on a second viewing that had me tearing up.
The atmosphere the poem creates is quite lovely, Richard. The two line stanzas suit. The poem pays to reread. It’s one of those where different things stand out on each reading.
Thanks, Margo. And thanks for the prompt.