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The Good Ship Lollipop

Cara Losier Chanoine

When I was four,
I danced ballet
beside slight little girls
with pillow-smooth skin,
whose costumes hung on bony shoulders
and creased across concave stomachs.

I gracelessly contorted my body through the positions.
Dark curls marking me amidst
wispy spun-sugar ponytails,
I missed cues,
moved apart,
out of sync.

Our costumes were nylon and itchy white lace,
bright against my gypsy-child features.
I didn’t revel in it,
didn’t like the sequins or the lace,
but at four years old,
on the painted stage floor,
I learned how to move.

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