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Some Poems:
DANCING
by Janelle DuBois
Dancing, she gets ready to leave
Swaying hips make a last survey
of sensual impermanence
Warm thighs
press several times
against other dancers
Fingertips memorize a friend's dancing breast:
food for the long trip,
snapshot of what used to matter
Closed eyes strain to see the white light,
and her dead Moma, and her first pet turtle
Her music fades but she keeps dancing
Now there's just the bass and drums
Now there's just the bass
Now it's all gone
GIRLS
Some girls are fat
some girls are thin
some girls like virtue
some girls like sin
Some girls like tools
some girls like toys
some girls like girls
some girls like boys
Some girls are sober
some girls are drunks
some girls are smart
some girls are lunks
All girls are beautiful
all girls are free
all girls are fabulous
all girls are me
IN A RUINED WORLD
In a ruined world
storylines are dangerous
I am dangerous
and you are dangerous
In a ruined world
many different wavelengths of light reach my eye simultaneously
daffodils and dandelions continue to produce oxygen
and deep-diving whales live with currents but not waves
In a ruined world
a pretty young transgendered girl watches herself in the mirror
two heterosexuals stay in bed all day, touching each other
and an old man can't remember the name of the last person he had sex with
In a ruined world
the Sahara spreads southward
clinical trials begin for a new antiviral drug
and raindrops soak the grass in a vacant lot
In a ruined world
storylines are dangerous
I am especially dangerous
and you
are especially
dangerous
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