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Best Barre Poems


Drunk In a Barre
Once manifested on the 
heel of Adagio in G major,
balancés and assemblés from 
the back hand. Baryshnikov told
me to flatten my stomach, so I 
repressed the urge to
breathe; suffocation is
incandescence by the barre.

Then I looked in the mirror and the 
mirror glared back in contempt-...

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Categories: barre, absence, abuse, dance, drink,
Form: Blank verse

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