Endicott Creative Writing professor, Margaret Young.

This week  we have poetry by Endicott Creative Writing professor Margaret Young. Life can be described as a strange dance. Cheek to cheek,/ eye to eye,/ we trip the light fantastic/until the day we die.

 SIGN LANGUAGE

The mice given the same

genetic flaw that causes human anxiety

and panic performed a gesture even scientists

admitted being touched by:

when picked up by their tails they wrung

their paws together.

In Akron’s museum the docent shows

how Rodin’s Cathedral,

two bronze hands big as grain sacks

touching at fingertips, can only be posed

by two people, two right hands raised

to form a broken Gothic arch, a bit of twist

as if a dance were starting, two

stepping a slow circle, eyes level,

facing truths.

– Margaret Young

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