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Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance!

POETRY BY RACHELLE WOODS; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN

Butoh_poetry

try

please

only try

 

penetrate

eyes

patterns

 

support

transformation

unity

 

submit

to a magic man

 

be full

the sacred fool

 

follow impulse

cultivate energy

 

allow

no judgment

liberate your mystery

 

expose old bones

 

please

all respect

be delicate

 

why I can not?

mostly found poem using words spoken by

Butoh master Diego Pinon

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After years of calling Maine home, Rachelle Woods is currently settled in Santa Fe. She finds collaboration and performance with other poets and movers inspiring, and hosts a writing group and a contact improv dance jam. Rachelle co-hosted a monthly peace reading for seven years, as well as an open reading that has continued with new hosts for almost as long. Her work has appeared in regional journals and anthologies.