(24 January 1961 / South Africa)

poet Margaret Alice Second

Poems of Margaret Alice Second

81. Beyond Life's Metronome (Revised) 9/26/2012
82. Beyond Love 1/13/2012
83. Bizarre Burlesque (REVISED) 4/12/2013
84. Bizarre Satire 11/25/2011
85. Black Matter Destination 9/5/2011
86. Brain Without Orientation (Revised) 4/27/2012
87. Brave Officials Like Us 10/26/2012
88. Breaking Rules For Love 10/16/2012
89. Breathless In Togetherness 4/30/2013
90. Buried While Breathing 9/6/2012
91. Burned to the Ground 2/1/2013
92. But Let Me Return (REVISED) 5/1/2013
93. Calligraphic Script 8/9/2011
94. Camouflaged Flaws In Reality (Revised) 12/5/2011
95. Cannibal Squid And Ninja Shrimp 12/19/2011
96. Cannot Be Made Good 3/17/2013
97. Carry A Campstool (REVISED) 2/26/2013
98. Celebration Of Being 6/8/2012
99. Celestial Orchestration 10/5/2012
100. Cello More Important Than Life 11/1/2012

Swaying Then Dancing

Crushed under a grey day, reports of my
mother in pain, Carine weighed down by
four steel pegs and ten screws in her leg,
no escape from scrambled thoughts

Went out marching, swaying then dancing
to musical rhythms, becoming one with the
beat of the universe, not a care in the world
as velvet voices sing joy into my mind

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