Ostinato Cappricio

Ekphrastic poem (ekphrasis is imaginative reflection on a work of art, in this case dance):

les twins

legato

same face twice

yet each

supremely one

oh pizzicato

my heart slows

their fingers toes

mark air & linger

so glissando

fluid bodies

could be liquid

atoms magically

diffused

their torsos glow

the now of flow

 

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ostinato (repeated phrase/rhythm),
cappricio (lively, free, short),
legato (smooth),
pizzicato (pluck strings),
glissando (slide),
flow (term invented by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, meaning complete immersion in the present moment, doing something you love, especially something creative).