12 February 2008

la fille danse

a taste of my writing in response to renoir. guess the painting, win a prize.

Completely still at the center of all chaos, like the eye of the storm, I watch this polite destruction as the lives around me twirl and fall, little ballerinas on exhausted toes. I could have been one to spin across this stage, I could have danced around the small talk and the laughter, the coy looks and blush cheeks. But I have chosen to sit still, as this dull man’s jokes flutter off his tongue like lackadaisical butterflies oblivious to my eyes as they roll back into my skull.


(c) JMS

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

tu parles français? chouette!

et la piece de renoir? je pense que c'est "ballerina", mais degas a plus de peintures des ballerines.

j said...

oui! mais non, ce n'est pas une piece avec les danseurs.

xx