a most watery waltz

the spell midnight halts

godmothers and green scales

blue fairies and fish tails

floating on familiar chords

washing up on salty shores

in tangled gardens lovers meet

charming princes whisper sweet

disguised maidens find new worlds

passion springs then tension swirls

dive in deeper chapter by chapter

swimming and sweeping into two ever afters.

-6:28am Monday morning, from the tired, two-story-ballets-in-one-week mind of a restless ballet dancer

photo by Jeffrey Teitler for Ballet Theater Company.