Field Notes
Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY JUSTINE HIGHSMITH; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT touch. ground. open. floor duets they witness apart, foot by inch humming body, still roaring teeth in bone-white jaw compression of a thousand, maybe two thousand more eons of skin on dirt place…
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Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CATHERINE MARIE DAVALOS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT My back has been watched, the hipbone hurting for six episodes. I keep finding places, new palettes of expression to nothing. I turn, a different person, older, tired. Is that what I am holding?…
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Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY DELPHINE HSINI MEI; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Pillow Willow Bridges of thoughts lead his path to home Once been found He was a child wandering wild In the palace of her heart She dances Steps that ease his wounds Sparks the…
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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.…
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Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY MADISON KREKEL; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Only in service to you Can I feel the most free My brain powers down I do not move from intellect I can taste everything But I do not try to define it My love…
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