my sister said she saw the statues dance
\nI told her to leave me alone
\nbut the kid kept saying, every night
\n“the statues are dancing!”
\n“no, it’s not the swaying trees!”
\n“no, I’m not dreaming!”
\n“I saw it!”
\n“come watch them with me!”
\nso here we are
\nlaying in the rainwet grass
\nof the citylight-lit garden
\nyou can’t see the stars out here
\nwe haven’t spoken
\nI think she fell asleep
\ndreaming of statues dancing
\nthen I see a stone hand shift
\nthrough the brush
\nthe hand moves stiffly, then the arm
\nthe whole woman slowly wakes
\nshe reaches for the man nearby
\nand he, too, begins to move
\nI watch them slide off their pedestals
\nmotions smoothing out
\nthey take each other’s hands
\nslowly, calmly
\nunderwater giants
\nunaware of my tiny eyes watching
\nwhen their feet touch the earth
\nthere is no shuddering boom
\nsilently these marble beasts
\nstep and leap and spin
\nthey are suspended
\nin time and air
\nfloating, twisting among the flowers
\nI fall asleep
\nto their lullaby dance
\nmy sister and I
\ntucked away
\nin the garden foliage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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