PALIN*

a word

  a movement of a hand,

or influx of fresh oxygen

If you spin too much you cannot see the skirt in full, you just spin.

And again. And again. And again.

like an echo of the previous jiggle now rippling down my arms. 

*palin (Greek, πάλιν) - again; presented as part of a reading act by Mil Vukovic Smart, with Carlos Maria Romero Atabey, at the book launch of “CHOREOMANIA: DANCE AND DISORDER” by Kélina Gotman (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Horse Hospital, London, 12 June 2018