Cyclone of Exuberance

( A poem a day, every day for a month #16)

Out of a long estrangement

I lost my willingness to suffer

Never an ingenue

I discarded the stiff

limiting postures of perfection

A carnival of animals

Larger than life

stretched out of the shadows

and in the rhythm of a warm up

Cheerful vultures

comically small

duck-dived, then disappeared

the smell of orange blossoms

and stars fired up

Led me into this

thrilling dance