ECSTATIC DANCING
After an hour and a half of ecstatic dancing
After fifteen minutes of ecstatic dancing
After twenty-five and a half minutes of ecstatic dancing
After just ten minutes of ecstatic dancing
After being held for just one minute to the central cyclotron of ecstatic dancing
After being run down by the stampeding horses of ecstatic dancing and
clutching tight to their glistening manes
After disappearing for long periods of time in the ramshackle shack flying apart
in ecstatic dancing
After one solid minute under the waterfall of ecstatic dancing
After sighting land afar off under pink clouds and
green sunlight in the brilliant golden sky of ecstatic dancing
After concluding and then deconcluding in the
heightened inconclusive argument of the self shivered down to its
essential non-existence in the super reality of ecstatic dancing
After crickets and songbirds and every howling animal on earth join together
in the untouched Paradise of ecstatic dancing
After dreaming and waking up and then waking up
in the dream of being awake forever in ecstatic dancing
After plucking the ripe fruit and digesting it completely in just one
delicious moment of ecstatic dancing
After being transformed from a butterfly into a
freight train and from a freight train into a
redwood forest and from a redwood forest into a
snowy mountain range of weeping willows in the
moonlight and from that snowy mountain range of weeping willows into pure
moonlight itself in ecstatic dancing
After one breath of Allah taken and received and given out into the
world again in just one unbated breath of ecstatic dancing
and after the endlessness of this poem that will
continue long after it’s finished in the endlessly
energized eternity of ecstatic dancing
After ecstatic dancing is done and begun again
and we enter into its core as we
were at the first and will be at the last again deathless and
breathless in ecstatic dancing
After just one second of ecstatic dancing
After God’s blessed message excites us again
to ecstatic dancing
12/3/2002