The Dance

An old tune fades into being
Those silver stairs fade back into being
The cigarettes are relit
And forgotten
As lovers sigh and fall to passion
The skeleton piano keeps pace
The bass muscles its way
Into the velvet night
Up step the horns
And the reign of sound is renewed
Will you come to me now?
Send a shiver down my soul
And fling me to the sky
A million stars glitter and fall
Are reborn
A call to arms then
The night throbs with electricity
As the tenor blows blows
Snake on horn man
Slither across rooms
Down eager fingers
Waft gently from parted lips
Flow down breasts heavy with desire
Through fine hairs
Explode into starlight
Be the world, the universe
Endless
Flow like tears in the rain
Clad your ship in the sails of darkness
Burn lamps to light the way


The cadences fall
The misty beat of cymbals grow silent
As a new melody is prepared
A call to the night birds from their nests
And moths to flames
The long forgotten knight of the east awakens
Under a silver moonrise
Shades dance a slow number
The white and black keys
Tumble down the wells
In swelling waves of sound

Dance with me love
Dance away death, ruin
Dance the jig of life
Dance the dance of beauty out of time
Dance with me love
A dance of wild steps
Quick pirouettes

Blow man blow!

This last dance holds all creation
In the palm of my hands
In my wild hair
In the sweat, the pain
Come dance
Gather your breath, move slow

Foreheads touch, arms encircle
The heat remains
Come taste my skin
As we sway down the floor of the night


Whisper
Breath
In
My
Eyes
Mist envelops my mind
As the skeleton crew gives up the tune
And the tenor man gives a final blow
And is still

The lights go out, the stars are dim
Exhausted we lie
In each other’s arms
A new day will arise, passing fair
A day of soft, velvet mornings
We’ll remember the night
And the graceful dance of the nyads
The dance of the dervishes
A kind of blue

-Beq