Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE JARABE, by IDELLA PURNELL


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First Line: Ten thousand tiny steps in the summer dust
Last Line: And the audience breaks in quick applause, like foam.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Ten thousand tiny steps in the summer dust!
High heels, spurn the ground! With skirts held wide,
I shall throw my head far back to show my pride
And whirl faster than the music. People must
See how Juan's partner is fleeter than a river,
Falling in grace as does a waterfall,
To leap as a wild mare startled at a call,
With ankles fleeter than a fleet wing's quiver.
While Juan, hands clasped behind him, shakes his head,
And stamps like thunder on the hollow ground,
I must speed more swiftly than a doe is sped,
To drop like a spent doe, as his great bound
Lifts a leg in a rainbow arc above my comb,
And the audience breaks in quick applause, like foam.





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