111DRESSAGE LESSON

After raiding your wardrobe

I feel so much more myself.

I feel so much more myself

that I do a little dance

in red shoes, on tiny feet.

I clatter like a well-shod pony

down a cobbled street.

My dance is not for you

to judge, or even

see: I do my dance invisibly.

You will know it only by

the swinging hanger

where your riding jacket

used to be.112