Belly Dancing on the Broadkill River
by Karla Pahel
August 22, 2007
The range of motion gets bigger
in the second chakra
where the color is deep reds and oranges
Hip scarves are jingling
over this, our base,
our hips,
our reproductive organs,
our center of creativity.
The teenage boys are casting their lines
moving into this sacra center
pelvic tucking and pulling in
out through the long windows,
where the boys are fishing off the bridge
pulling in,
below my naval,
figure eights we swim,
dive under,
to the roots here,
to this river, this small town,
once a ship building town,
filled with opaque shells of mermaids' toenails
where we are learning not cabaret,
but rather tribal styles.
About the author:
I am a Delmarva writer and member of The Rehobeth Beach Writers Guild. I have attended Tin House's Summer Writers Workshop'06 at Reed College. My poetry has won third place at The Rehobeth Beach Seaglass Contest'07. I was also a Breadloaf Fellowship finalist'07. I have founded Elizabeth Minshull's Literary Teas, a floating literary teahouse located at Warrington Manor Lavender Farm as well as Hull Cottage Bed & Breakfast. Currently, I live in Milton, DE with my two children, Jonah and Aidan and boyfriend Michael Chamberland.
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