+Art-The Mirror

You were different        
From the cane          
Pushing          
Insubordination          
Into          
Feigning          
Benevolence.          
Smacking          
Offensiveness          
Into          
Annexation          
Or Appropriation          
Over ballet bars          
Mounted          
Against the walls          
Of          
Skeletal          
Infraction          
Psyching me          
The f*ck out/          
And you were          
Now          
Training me          
In a new          
Modality.          
Watch the mirror.        
(In protest)          
To move          
Into          
Unchartered          
Territory          
(Run and catch)          
For the purposes          
Of          
Tracing          
Then correcting          
Flaws          
In the body’s          
Electric          
System          
Making          
It possible          
To perceive          
Ourselves          
As we did          
(Undisturbed)          
In the aisles/          
“Gangways”          
Of becoming    
And          
The further          
Out          
You took me          
Or we went          
The clearer          
It all became.          
/          
Occasionally          
We brushed          
And I Tried          
To feel          
Nothing          
But          
An adult routine          
And a high 5          
Until the bitter          
End          
Of the afternoon.          
         
#Joel Hall #Jazz #Dance Teacher #Russian Ballet