Amy L. George - Two Poems

Danza Acrobatica

 

The skin moves in ways

we do not understand.

Beauty begets beauty,

touch begets touch,

fluid movement a

monument to our

celebration;

a twisted banner of red

encircles our love.

In early morning,

we rejoice to feel

the wind on our faces,

the sun on our shoulders. Alone,

we flow in waves of bliss, in

satin seas beneath the sky

whose topography

no man can chart.

*Ekphrastic poem based on "Danza Acrobatica" by Victoria Vera Rosado

Before the New Day

The night crept over the edges

of the earth, became a silk sheet

tossed into the sky

as we sat in the shadow of a chapel

dreaming pinpoint star dreams.

The gypsy wind murmured in my ear

of faith in darkness.

Lady Moon held her position

while small streaks of fire

circled her, danced in her room,

her children celebrating

the end of the day.

Two clouds embraced each other,

held us in their grasp.

One bore your name

and the other, mine.

They drifted near,

then together, all of us

paused, clutching unspoken

desire for the night,

the warm blanket ache of shadow,

the joy of faithful light.

Amy L. George is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the author of Desideratum (Finishing Line Press, 2013), The Fragrance of Memory (Amsterdam Press, 2010), and Sacred Fires and Ebullient Flames (Red Ochre Press, 2011).