FOLLOW THE FOOL

Follow the Fool-Dancing Lessons for the Feet and Heart

The art of the dance, like any art, can be imitated, appropriated, stolen.
Every heart has a signature movement. Something that takes your breath away and returns it.
When dancing with a stranger
wait to feel his intention

Note the way he leans
listen to his breathing
Attend to the tell tale signs of inauthenticity,
a technical correctness

The hand held too firmly to the curve of your back
A turn made too quickly
more to un- balance than to stir
a certain unsteadiness between beats

Take care with those who do not let the music move through them
Who try to master it
They cannot lead

Follow only the fool
Who with steady abandon
And trembling hand
Escorts you to the center of the world

He alone will be able to weather
Those moments filled with eternity
When the guitars sit fastened shut in their cases
And the drum skins begin to droop