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In the Empire of Light the water's completely dry floating on a surface of itself around islands pointed south-southwest The wind fills it then with more of itself according to the rules which cause parallel lines to vibrate and cross less and less among the hanging baskets from a rain forest among the visiting statesmen from a rain forest Here the dancer stops to regain her balance and reelaborate the distance from the feet to the head The risk is a part of the rhythm She steps out of and into balance with those who are left Chalk-marks show them where to stand | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MEASURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE LITTLE ELF-MAN by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS THE COCK AND THE BULL by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY THEOLOGY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by SAM WALTER FOSS FELICIA HEMANS by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |
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