Georgia Brown 1898-1914

Georgia Brown 1898-1914 We were the deathless dream dancers The crazy girls with secrets and surprises! Me and Nellie and Trudy and Olive. We waited monthly for the full midnight moon Waited with no words uttered Our secret times together, Times and moments never mentioned or known about, By everyone we knew and did not know, Except by us, the crazy girls The deathless dream dancers, barefoot With satin ribbons in our braids, We joined smooth perfumed hands and fingers In old Clark Cemetery Across Citrus Road over there, As our sleepy snoozing town dreamed unawares, And we danced silently, gracefully, freely, As with the monarchs and the tiger swallowtails Fluttering in the summer sunlight of our audacious youth, Our sheer cotton dresses, Lifting them up, and letting them fall, Again and again and again, From the Hadley tombstone, and Around the standing procession of desert palm trees Around and around and around, All the way over to the Hardy gravestone, Me and the crazy girls! We, the deathless dream dancers, Keepers of secrets and surprises, Saw something in the moon shadows there, Something no one else has ever seen! Yes, we saw the smile of Sappho Carved with the knife of God On the stone sepulcher of Roscoe Settle!