The Dancer

was some kind

of spaced

speed queen

dressed in

black

diaphanous

veiled ankle

length skirt

wind billowed

black wraparound

eye shades

way black

dyed hair

blouse cape

& skirt

She pirouettes

on cliff edge

overlooking

glacial kettle

ponds in

Mt. Hope

Cemetery

choreographing

an artless dance

of death

by Alan Catlin