Ballerina

I wanted to photograph a ballerina.

This photograph was in response to a poem entitled Glissade by Linda Ann Strang. It will also appear at an exhibition on Friday 29th October at the New Life Gallery, 13 Newington Street, Port ELizabeth.

Glissade

She moves the children’s clothes

away from the balcony door

and finds a measure of broad moonlight

between the geraniums.

She wanted to be a ballerina

before polio took over her limbs like a lover.

She lifts her arms high and tilts her head,

owns for one minute a square metre of Swan Lake;

feels invisible wings brush across her face.

Linda Ann Strang