Dog day dancer

This morning, I found you

Body art by Cezanne

Trying to tap dance

The bottom of the sky

I turned you over

with a stick

You turned back to dancing

Where no floor exists

I listened as you called

In the middle of the night

In shadows of daylight

Singing in trees

Did you find a mate

Before you came to this?

Sacrificial fatted calf

Ants will find your body

Carve it up

And haul away

I choose to remember

Your pre-cubist exoskeleton

Calling in trees

Over here, over here,

…release me, set me free

8-11-21