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The Dance

By Lee Balan

Eyes open
The world and everything
spills in
like water from an overflowing cistern

Demented angels
armed with scriptures
take up residence
with engorged demons
on a love-making crusade

Cherubim sing,
“World without end”
Hell Spawn respond
with lisps, hot licks, and hip-hop

Prelude to the dance

Stars ignite
and rain down fire
Earth quakes like a beating drum
Shiva does the shimmy

One small man
waves his arms and chants

Shaman
with eyes open
Stops time.