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The dance
Poem by Dorothy Lindsay
by Dorothy Lindsay
20th October 2023
Not like Matisse’s ‘Dance’, as Touch
for now, is merely a hopeful thing,
and for them, not a dancing ring
of five; nor, it seems, just
communal friendship,
but something more:
a longing to embrace, but never quite
achieving that closeness.
