POEM - And in Another Life . . . Flamenco Dancer

Without even one lesson

I learned

That my hips move

In sultry and rhythmic patterns

That let my arms sway one way

While my feet shuffled another

And I lure you in

With the dance

That inspires fiery desire

In every soul with a heartbeat

The fluidity of my dance

Sends women’s hearts a flutter

And engenders the envy

Of every other male

Within the sphere

Of the influence

Of my dance

An undefinable area

Stretching alluringly

In all direction

Emitting forth enticements

From the place

Where I spin and twirl

It has always been this way

Even when I was taught

At a young age

The shy-preteen-foot-slide-two-step

I couldn’t stop the hip sway

An uncontrollable gyroscopic force

Keeping me riveted to the dance floor

Only escaping orbit

For the briefest of moments

When I would grab another partner

Then we’d plummet wildly

Into the center of the floor

To partake

Of the entrancing beats

To rave

And samba

And embrace

To quaff the vitality

Of the musical fluid

Let flow through our veins

In fantastic palpitations

Body

and

mind               

and

music

and

room

A happy, heady blur