POEM
Watching dan-
Watching dan-
-cers on skates
Ten thousand women
and I
the only one
in boots
Life’s dance:
they meet
he holds her leg
up
Lorine Niedecker, “[Watching dan-/cers on skates]” from Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy, Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of California. Published by University of California Press.
Source: Collected Works (University of California Press, 2004)
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