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Circle Dance

• She raised her head Her chin held high
• When music came Across the sky
• From the room above Where merriment lived
• She heard the song And knew how it went

• “From winding waters To swelling sea
• The great-limbed man Is calling me
• To join again In a circle dance
• As once we did A decade hence

• “We clapped as soon The melody went
• The men threescore The ladies again
• A dozen more And here we stood
• For the circle dance On a floor of wood

• “We clicked our heels On the floorboards then
• The first few steps Of the circle dance
• Our eyes did search The hand of a man
• Otherwise we must Stop with the circle dance

• “His yellow-ringed eyes Found me at once
• The hawk across me In line for the dance
• I took one hand The other held high
• We turned one round We made to fly

• “Around the room In glints of yellow
• The candles, his eyes A light truly mellow
• And then there was more We danced alone
• In an empty sky Under a butter moon

• “Come home with me To live in the ocean
• In the clouded sky In eternal motion
• I live on the earth Where rivers are flowing
• Come live with me Forever becoming

• “I'll wreathe you in streams Crown you with thunder
• Show you the world Above it and under
• I listened to him Rent truly asunder
• A moment of silence My greatest blunder

• “In the space of a dance I knew great romance
• One look, one touch A singular chance
• I lived a whole life In that circle dance
• I never did speak And he let me go on

• “Before he went He leaned close to say
• Think well in this time Ten years and a day
• For I will return To take you away
• Don't reject me again In that month of May

• “I will go to my thunder The skies and the sea
• In each drop of rain It's my face you will see
• I will stroke your hair wet And lap at your feet
• When you ford the river You'll be walking with me

• “I was left in the dance And taken among them
• Another my partner I never saw him
• No, I only saw then In each sailing cloud
• The tawny-eyed glint That continued to haunt”

• One day had passed now A decade's hence
• The tune chimed again For the circle dance
• She ascended the stairs Clicked a heel on the floor
• She circled towards Yellow eyes once more

• Those eyes held a question She smiled up at him
• This silence of gold Held a beckoning
• They circled the room From the threescore pairs
• One vanished mid-step No one saw them again