Coat
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance!
BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT
Do you see your body
hanging off you
like a coat on a warm spring day?
Pull up your skin
like a pair of underwear
and prepare to move in it.
Swim in your muscles.
Get lost in your bones.
And if you gasp
at the pleasure and pain
coating your nerves,
rejoice.
It means you’re not ready
to cast off your body
after all.
Emmaly Wiederholt is a dancer and writer in Santa Fe, NM, and the woman behind Stance on Dance.
Camille Taft is a seventeen year-old dancer living in Longmont, CO, who has trained throughout her life in primarily ballet and modern dance. With both her parents as visual artists, she has always appreciated the excitement that comes from a collaboration of mixed media, and was thus overjoyed to have the opportunity to work with Stance on Dance.