Dance
tender feet
tiptoe in delicate fashion
striking precise balance upon
scuffed wooden floors
where countless dancers keep time
across decades that
wear themselves thin
stretched threadbare in faded peach patches
traced along shoes en pointe
where bruised toes and cracked feet
press rhythmically into crust-laden blood droplets
press rhythmically into crust-laden blood droplets
drying hidden beneath gracefully elongated limbs
that strike poses in dirty mirrors
whose intense stares reflect upon movement where
nothing is safe to hide
whose intense stares reflect upon movement where
nothing is safe to hide
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Beautiful details—
press rhythmically into crust-laden blood droplets
drying hidden beneath gracefully elongated limbs
Thank you, Julia!