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What to do if you meet Nijinsky

The special child
 
Remains a child
 
Knowing that everything else
 
Is smaller, meaner and less gentle.
 
 
Watch the creature standing
 
Like a fountain in a photograph.
 
He’s moving carefully as a leaf,
 
Growing in a hothouse.
 
What are the roots?
 
What is the stem?
 
What are the flowers?
 
Nijinsky
 
Dancing too much truth.
 
 
If you don’t kill Nijinsky
 
He’s going to turn you into Nijinsky.
 
You’ll live like a leaf, die like a leaf,
 
Like Nijinsky.
 
 
Sweet magical
 
Skinned
 
Alive
 
Animal
 
 
You must decide for yourself how you’re going to kill Nijinsky.
 
 
Leave him in the prison
 
Whose stones are cut so cleverly
 
They fit every contour of his skin exactly.
 
Leave him collapsing
 
In the foreign forest clearing
 
While the pine trees burn around him like a circle of matches.
 
 
Climb into your car and drive like a rocket right out of the world of feeling.
 
 
Leave Nijinsky dancing
 
The dance of lying very still.

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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