Drama Class

Droplets of water in drama class

evaporate from wooden floors

I tried to be

petite girls in polo necks

carefree shadows

springing in black tights

painting afternoon stripes

waves skimming breasts

a priestess

fanned by the webbed feet of swans

hair hung with lilies

tides grasping at sand

adolescence at our ankles

we side-stepped

watching ghostly fistfuls dissolve.