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35 Drum Dream Dance Anklets in the cowried dust. Dip Beat Reverse. Half-turn swirls Moon and earth. Carolinians Haitians Africans Drums Scream that stolen scream. Hands slap Stop Pound drummed skin. Down from the hills, In from the sweaty humid coast So many voices float Pained human pain. Five snakes whip-quick tongue lash air. The center rises, the circle rattles Half-turn swirls Moon and earth. Dip Beat Reverse. 36 Scream that stolen scream. Torch-fire smokes and flickers, A child runs twice around the flames. In her hands A thousand midnight whispers. Long Woman flails The circle cries in tongues. Come come come Turn stop jump. This dance of fire knows Calls you by your name. Back into the circle, Long Woman chants and quakes, Hailing souls ancient Bursting from her skin. Five snakes rise and hiss. Her circle moans In the cowried dust Where evening beds a child And child sleeps and dreams With drum. ...

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