by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Feb 7, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Nijinsky - Echopraxia Nijinsky – Echopraxia (1919 – The dancer Nijinsky is admitted to the Bellevue Sanatorium and among other conditions is diagnosed with Echopraxia, an involuntary repetition or imitation of movements and sounds.)...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Your Last Life Your Last Life You were a mouse in your last life we always said, with your cot dreams of running in wheat fields. A meadow mouse speared by fear, shaken by the rumble of the harvester, the wave of the scarecrow, the hover of...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Trapeze Trapeze When she was little she was taught how to climb the slack wire. Up four or five steps leaning out one arm extended, she’d sequin smile they’d clap get her down send her back behind the canvas flaps. When she was a...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Lion Tamer The Lion Tamer Turns Back From behind the tent flaps he watches fire blown from lips ballooning in blazing orange ladders sway dust rises clowns stumble pathos in their eyes as they totter around the ring hooting and...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Ten (Kate's Recording) Ten (Kate’s Recording) they stand fixedlost in the club room clatter,gloves pummel on bruised arms colours smudge blueturning to indigo turning to purplethen back to default red stung by the ring of the...
