WHEN HEIDI DANCES       (for Heidi and all who love her)

 

When you dance

dear Heidi,

the space you fill

 

glows with sparkling

effervescence.

 

Sweet music, complete silence

embrace your curving muscles

your swerving hips,

 

your soft hair shines like fragrant prayer,

as we reverent dervishes, your admiring

servants, gratefully listen

 

and watch you sway and bloom across the gleaming living room.

 

Scintillas of spindrift grace and refresh all

who witness your awakened

earth-quaking beauty.

 

Yourself rambunctious,

yet fine as lace,

 

a strong form and eager face,

so flowingly sumptuous!

 

An ocean wave born in love and truth,

you roll across unmapped seas

a calming breeze of coolness,

 

you glisten you turn with a schoolgirl’s

frisky ease, yes--your unmild beguiling

enchants and pleases.

 

Mischievous marvelous in your glee,

this freedom you make today makes

our day wholly new, holy too.

 

A galaxy of spinning light, my carefree woman, an altar

beaded with precious color, wildly you do delight us.

 

Oh, how we relish your feminine loving motion.

Thank you for such moments of bliss, this joy-filled

rhythmic shaking, soothing as a shrine upon

the bluest lake.

 

We hear your whispers of joy continue, see in this moving

stillness your skin’s pure tactile happiness,

 

your replenishing dance--our soulful sustenance.