Watching dan-/ cers on skates

Ten thousand women
    and I
            the only one
                         in boots

Life’s dance:
      they meet
         he holds her leg
                               up

Copyright Credit: Lorine Niedecker, “Watching dan-/cers on skates” from Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy, Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of California. Published by University of California Press.
Source: Collected Works (University of California Press, 2002)