Street Dance

I love street musicians, their confidence, willingness to make light
of an ordinary morning, bring an element of fun to the day. And sometimes
someone will move to the music, sway, tap, or dance …

STREET DANCE

guitar & sax                                  
sound a fanfare

flood of sunlight
sears the pavement

two boys leap
jazz beat

gutter & sidewalk
laughter rising

wall-throb
as rhythm breaks

pedestrians to
a thousand guilts

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</ ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, 2016.