Our history comes out 

and dances around 

teasing us with 

provocative gestures 

 

encouraged to join in 

not having taken lessons in

moving tentatively at first 

then swept by the current

 

spinning around 

knocking things down 

until too late 

in the evening 

 

people mill around 

trying to reconstruct 

broken things and 

half-remembered sequences 

 

some laughing 

some crying 

no one exactly remembers 

anything as it ever happened