Slowly the meandering line of people started filling Howard\u2019s Creek picnic area,
\nOld and young, men and women – regular ritualists,
\nLate afternoon tempo of the working-day was unwinding into the suffused serenity of the evening,
\nPeople avoided each other\u2019s
eyes generally but when confronted exchanged brief greetings.
\nThe Creek is ten miles from the urban center Les Amon,
\nA tree-packed-green-strip floating in Hazen River canopied by open sky –
\nA long slender boat drifting aimlessly toward Pacific Ocean.
\nAs the summer evening sky is painted in long crimson brushstrokes,
\nThe gathering gradually eases into a rhythmic movement approaching a dance.
\nIn pairs and in solo the group pulsates to some unknown tune,
\nIn pregnant silence the act melts with the scene,
\nFor a moment life seems harmonious and lifted:
\nAn escape from the cracked silhouette in a cage,
\nGouged loneliness knocking emptily on a dry varnished cocoon,
\nSnuffed-out urge to be one with the world.
\nThe dance flows into the indolent rays of the sunset,
\nThen people stop and gather their things and without
saying goodbye to each other,
\nHurry toward their cars to return to their lonely cells and functional lives,
\nDiffidently dreaming to dance again soon.
\nSuffern, New York, 5.9.11
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