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On Our Nightly Walk, She Takes My Hand

Asheville, NC

JESSICA JACOBS

Across the dark street, the dance studio

is a brilliant lamp, a Cornell box

set to music and motion: girls hold each other

in swaying pas de deux, a phrase

first translated for me as piece of God.

That’s wrong, of course,

but not entirely. For what is it to move in time

with another, to acknowledge and learn

a body beside your own—the dancing apart

and the final coming back

together—what is this if not

some kind of grace,

some human-sized serving of God?

“On Our Nightly Walk, She Takes My Hand” from Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (c) 2019 by Jessica Jacobs. Appears with the permission of Four Way Books. All rights reserved.