A Dance

To time’s music.

The wings are wet with oil, and yet.

Still here, we look. This alteration:

how many steps? How bright when

it becomes us, before the lens 

takes its leave. I may have lost

mine already, but I remember.

How we had no use for silences

or speech. Neither was needed

to let the other be.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

5 thoughts on “A Dance”

  1. Gabriela Marie Milton – Gabriela Marie Milton #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author, 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press NYC; internationally published poet; poetry collections Woman: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis Pres, July 27, 2021); Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis Press, April, 2020)
    Gabriela Marie Milton says:

    I love this poem.

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      1. Gabriela Marie Milton – Gabriela Marie Milton #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author, 2019 Author of the Year at Spillwords Press NYC; internationally published poet; poetry collections Woman: Splendor and Sorrow (Vita Brevis Pres, July 27, 2021); Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings (Vita Brevis Press, April, 2020)
        Gabriela Marie Milton says:

        My pleasure dearest Stacey 🙏🌹🌺

  2. Bartholomew Barker – Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, where he has hosted monthly workshops for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021, 2024 & 2025 as well as the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in The Lake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others.
    Bartholomew Barker says:

    Love those last three lines. Great work!

    Reply

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