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| LAWRENCE LACAMBRA YPIL |
| At the Ballet Recital |
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| where metaphor where speculation where the girls at the ballet rehearsal knee-locked and stiff-armed up into the bright ceiling of the studio want to be perfect want to be lifted up light as no-body even if they are all body now: torso and thigh and smile and their arms arced like how do you call it Denouement falling into place and falling slowly and everything else suddenly inevitable and better. This poem is part of the collection that won First Prize for Poetry in the 2006 Palanca Awards |