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FIREDANCERS
Gallery
For Betty Branch
headless
firedancers
fantasy of
mirrored heat
gone crazed on late night walls
candleflames contort
on rock wall
ceiling
brazened wicks limber
lithe as harem
curls of liquid fire
a neck’s a yawn a
muted moan of
orgasmic winds
three
ivory-veined splashbacks
gullied
steamhoned
muffled drumcored guts
gluttonous torsos
slurping the air
backs valentine
vulva fat the angle
eagle-beak at that
silk and sharp at once
unrobed
dervishers
caught is the hum
of the turn
deep-bellied shadows
burn-up the brick
wall
while changing
light leaps
between
space
marble’s made
with horney soul that wants
to be seduced
the sculptor
chips away for best
but water bleeds
her hands
provoke frigid
rock
to bend
Judy Light Ayyildiz, Italy, July 1987
Judy Light Ayyildiz, America, December 1987
Left:
Fire Dancer III, 1987
Carrara marble
33” h
Collection of the artist
Opposite:
Fire Dancer II, 1987
Carrara marble
31” h
Collection of the artist
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