Temps De Pointes

Opening to the unknown-
body hobbles
bubbles with active possibility.

This is movement's view.
Step onto the platform-
remember you
learned to calm the stab
of the floor.

It's been two years.
Can you say you've forgotten anything?
This once was life-
perhaps now blood memory.

Instinct to defy gravity.

Within the body is
every stretch of muscle,
every extension.

Pose, figure, glance
over the shoulder.
Now you're bolder
moving the old support
systems away.

Flesh was never
meant for display
or reaction.
Shoes don't make (e)motion.
You don't need validation.