dancing the cathedral bones down
dancing the cathedral bones down these light and airy bones of my cathedral this rose crusting that delights the sun with slivers of old blood glass with my hair unfurling around the aching pillars I begin dancing the bones down artwork of my eyes erupts in the fall shells echoe though the hells of my ears dancing the scottish swing between the pattern of white fragments my feet bounce on by the ancestor ties my arms swing across the arcs of generations I break the string of grandmother finger beads beneath slapping soles I pull apart white mother pages with quick snap of fingers in circles my hair curls all the roof down my face palmed open to the blue shout of sky hands slap thighs as the buttocks crack the legs high light and airy I dance the last bones down in bounds I turn the hair of my veil with head flybyes pelvic to spine I shudder the lies white still face back legs spread arms cracked wide each finger spreads the light over my cathedral crossed graveyard © 1987, Debra Grace/Sciaf |
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