Friday, July 4, 2014

First Word: Danette Beavers: Sugar

That’s What You Do to Me

Sugar

lift me out of my chair
onto the dance floor


jitterbug me up the walls
I find myself
 

shimmying across the ceiling
jazz hands out the window
 

on to the roof top
Benny Goodman’s
 

“Sing, Sing, Sing” trumpets scream
trombones slide feet
 

one-two-three, one-two-three
rock, step
 

my feet lift
sweet clarinet one-two, one-two
 

over the moon
I say hey to the cow
 

as I come back down
a hard descent
 

back to the ground
where you are not
 

and I’m full of insulin and dizzy
ready
 

for one more dance
another sweet taste
 

of you.

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