The Nutcracker
THE NUTCKRACKER
Did you see it
Hear it?
Balanchine’s choreography
Tschaikowsky’s music
The New York City Ballet
Speak of dancing?
Speak of music?
Neither can describe art
It must be inwardly felt –
color and music extrasensory
Mathematics – Geometry comes close
You a throbbing spirit
centered in some rectangular enormity
The whole pounding awareness
Swept off in dream state
The ballerina
The toe
The grace
Quintessential feminine
The whirl inside your skull
Spinning
Round the brain
Yet there is a wholeness delicacy
So levitating
Can you sense the mystery –
what flies beyond the stage –
When all comes together
In a bold tympani stroke?
Copyright © Daver Austin | Year Posted 2011
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