Tomorrow … who knows? Dance Today!²
We dance—and have no notion of walking—³
The soul has moments of Escape—
When Bursting all doors, we dance—⁴
Dancing is the soul’s Radiance, the urn of free Passion …
The Dancers empty their personalities
To receive the raw flux of Spirit!⁵
A Body remembers music by the
Hollow Dancing it leaves behind—⁶
The dance is always danced above the
Hollow place, above the terrible Abyss—⁷
Dance with me a moment
Late in this Last Extinction!⁸
We celebrate daybreak in an enthusiastic dance—
And express deep Oneness with Surging, Radiating elements.⁹
We dance to ask Pardon of the Gods.¹⁰
¹ Anonymous, The Irish Dancer
² Langston Hughes, Harlem Night Club
³ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
⁴ Emily Dickinson, The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
⁵ Mary Gaitskill, Folk Song
⁶ George Abraham, Post-Script: Against Consolidation
⁷ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
⁸ Sam Sax, Prayer for the Mutilated World
⁹ Hermann Hesse tr. Richard & Clara Winston, Magister Ludi
¹⁰ Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things