Skywalker 4

High over the club’s stage, her game of dare
she becomes formless, with each brave new move
provokes fate by swinging on rings of steel.
Twirling wide circles to approving stares
then climbs a rope in the spotlight’s bright hue
laser hot but she’s a prism revealed.
A shape shifter as in contortionist
whose myriad moves are a free formed jazz.
It’s in these movements she truly escapes.
Her art a portal she’ll use to visit
the edge of risk, of fear, in sightless flash
high above the stage, her most cherished place.
And then it’s over like everything else.
She leaves, returns to what some call herself.

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RP Verlaine

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RP Verlaine lives in New York City. He has a MFA in creative writing from City College. He taught in New York Public schools for many years. His first volume of poetry, “Damaged by Dames & Drinking” was published in 2017 and another, “Femme Fatales Movie Starlets & Rockers” in 2018. A set of three e-books titled “Lies From The Autobiography” vol 1-3 were published from 2018 to 2020. His latest book, “Imagined Indecencies”, was published in February 2022. He was nominated for a pushcart prize in poetry in 2021 and 2022.

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