Improvisation

Is kicking feet.
Is kicking feet and lifting one partner above one partner’s head.
Is a rodeo, lifting one partner above one partner’s head.
Is a graveyard collapse hanging limp over someone else’s shoulder.
Is modern country, not new country my tractor so yellow so sexy.
Is classical dance, an ant crawl space underground.
Is pretending to be a marionette.  Onstage marionettes look like movies.
Is ventriloquism like inserting your hand into someone else’s back and speaking clearly?
Is getting down in the dirtiest setting like being so I can’t believe what I did?
What did you do?
I washed my hair then braided it.  After braiding I opened the drawer containing a collection of scissors.

About clairedonato

Claire Donato lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Fou, and Harp & Altar. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Claire graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and is currently completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University.
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