Dancer in the Smouldering Wind

Severing the limbs of time from the ground
You're dancing thrills the eyes you've found
Glaring fixed to every turn
As in the solid air you burn

Trussed in tension your falcon soars
Grasping our nerves in vicious claws
Through our stubborn way you course
Stretched eye beams by spinning torso

In grand and struggling gesture caught
You fight through swamps of inner thought
Bursting through the veils of wrath
Tearing reams of coiling cloth

This persuasive menacing dance
Freed this prisoner of romance
To briefly loose his heavy chains
Anguish forged by human pains

Down to the dungeon of despair
Weaving in your tangled care
Words of freedom in your body frail
Beguiling demons with your smile

And there you shared my silent kiss
In the dusk of heavy mist
Pinned like Gulliver to the ground
You nimbly danced upon my frown

Embracing fear in a cloud of unknowing
Determined screaming postures flowing
Dragged my soul across the stage
In your smouldering gusts of rage

Richard Field
August 2004