WIND DANCERS
At a fair distance
I believed them peculiar dancers
keeping time with the prairie wind
their silhouettes wavered slightly
too and fro
The sun hung about
like old men on main street benches
going nowhere
and fading fast
Squinting to observe
at a distance closing
brought a difference
in apparent demeanor
The one
a solitary graceful soul
and moving slow and smooth
as though suspended
by a rhythm
The other wildly intent
as a bird shifts it's gaze
swift then frozen
and swift and looking again
bizarre debate perhaps
an injun dance
they seemed curiously deranged
and unnatural in intent
And not without trepidation
a slight gnawing inside
one stalled step forward
dangerous realization crept
What frightful death
and my head fairly spun
round and round
that unnerving dance
upon the distant gallows
I believed them peculiar dancers
keeping time with the prairie wind
their silhouettes wavered slightly
too and fro
The sun hung about
like old men on main street benches
going nowhere
and fading fast
Squinting to observe
at a distance closing
brought a difference
in apparent demeanor
The one
a solitary graceful soul
and moving slow and smooth
as though suspended
by a rhythm
The other wildly intent
as a bird shifts it's gaze
swift then frozen
and swift and looking again
bizarre debate perhaps
an injun dance
they seemed curiously deranged
and unnatural in intent
And not without trepidation
a slight gnawing inside
one stalled step forward
dangerous realization crept
What frightful death
and my head fairly spun
round and round
that unnerving dance
upon the distant gallows
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