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Lion Dance
Withal gong-splash, drum-thunder,
firecracker bang, a guised duo jerks,
turns, leaps inside a poignant-eyed,
clamor-colored entity. As one, shade
antidotes their glitched backbones.
The self-stifling shelter, like triceps
withered from immobility, atrophies
the solitaire vigor, and forms opiate
of others' lucid embrace/coaction.
Asudden, the co-dancer drops into
near-heat stroke. From under wire/
bamboo belly, he wriggles out into
air where the splash, thunder, bang
intensifies with roar -- an earthshock
induced from showgoer feet-stomp.
To his shared being, he seeks re-
refuge, but already, the disoriented
have wrenched its linens to pieces.
