Enchantment

Part I Night The moonlight: Juice flowing from an over-ripe pomegranate bursting The cossack-crested palm trees: motionless The leopard spotted shade: inciting fear silence seeds sown. . . Part II Medicine Dance A body smiling with black beauty Leaping into the air Around a grotesque hyena-faced monster: The sorcerer— A black body—dancing with beauty Clothed in African moonlight, Smiling more beauty into its body. The hyena-faced monster yelps! Echo! Silence— The dance Leaps— Twirls— The twirling body comes to a fall At the feet of the monster. Yelps— Wild— Terror-filled— Echo— The hyena-faced monster jumps starts, runs, chases his own yelps back to the wilderness. The black body clothed in moonlight Raises up its head, Holding a face dancing with delight. Terror reigns like a new crowned king.