The Fairy Ring Dance: A Perpetual Canon
The Pole Star Arrived Alone and Left Alone
Bells stitched together the hours of the day. Glass painted us in sunset light. We waited for nightfall, when the starlight fairies conduct the moth orchestra in the midnight pollination dance. The notes of their violin wings coursed through our veins like blood, and we laughed at the silver pearl glow rising through the forest. A promise whispered to us, its mirror in the twirl of clouds in the black ink sky. A present, but before we could suspect its magic, could reach the crystal pool where we, too, might rebel, repeat the steps of the darkest dance, the sparrow stirred its feathers, and we heard dawn speak.
At The Crystal Dance
The ink of sunset coursed through the suspect clouds. Nightfall: a promise in its conduct of feathers and moth wings. We alone heard the rebel forest dance. When the violin whispered its magic to us, the blood stirred in our veins. The orchestra of bells painted its silver notes through the darkest pool of midnight black, the sky like starlight pollination. But before we could present the steps we stitched together in the light hours, we waited for the fairies. In the glass twirl, their rising glow, we, too, could mirror the day and speak where pearl dawn might reach. The pole star laughed and left us. Alone, a sparrow arrived. Repeat.
We Laughed Before We Could Speak
A
rebel
sparrow
stirred
the
sunset
pool
through
the
clouds.
Moth
glow
whispered:
fairies
twirl
in
the
forest.
Nightfall,
too,
arrived
in
its
darkest
pollination
of
the
hours.
We
waited
at
the
silver
starlight
where
the
crystal
magic
coursed,
alone.
The
violin
painted
its
promise
to
mirror
in
black
notes,
rising
like
wings,
a
present
of
feathers
and
blood.
The
steps
for
the
dance
stitched
its
suspect
conduct
in
us,
and
we
alone
might
pole
the
star
orchestra
through
the
ink
of
the
midnight
sky.
When
the
bells
of
glass
left
our
veins,
the
pearl
light
heard
us
reach
the
day.
And
dawn.
But
we
could
repeat
their
dance
together.
Us, But a Mirror
The
sunset
hours
painted
the
clouds
in
light--
and
blood.
The
sparrow
whispered
in
its
feathers.
We
alone
stirred
at
nightfall
and
waited
for
the
twirl
of
starlight
promise
through
the
sky.
The
might
of
midnight
rising:
when
the
darkest
fairies
glow,
where
(we
suspect)
the
violin
left
its
ink
in
our
veins.
A
pollination
of
rebel
wings
coursed
through
the
pole
star
pool.
Their
notes,
too,
we
heard:
could
speak,
repeat,
and
dance.
The
moth
laughed
silver,
like
us
could
conduct
the
crystal
orchestra
in
the
magic
steps
we
dance.
We
arrived
together,
before
the
black
bells
of
the
forest.
Dawn
stitched
its
pearl
glass
present
to
reach
the
day.
Alone.
Conduct in the Black Moth Orchestra
Darkest blood sunset coursed in our veins, and we could speak magic. (Suspect the clouds alone heard us.) Nightfall stitched its starlight in the sky, ink feathers rising. Midnight: pole of the day, when the hours promise to twirl through their steps together, and repeat the dance we like. Before we arrived where the fairies rebel, the mirror in the pool whispered, but the crystal waited. The violin laughed at us, its notes a pollination of star glow. Through the forest, the silver sparrow wings stirred, for we alone could reach the might of its glass light. Dawn painted a present of pearl bells, and we, too, left the dance.