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Poetry || SubmissionsBelly Dancing - Tel Aviv March 2002By Karen Alkalay-Gut 1 Hakim is singing and I am swinging my cane. The coins around my hips jingle just in the right places and deepen the beat. and I ignore for the moment the way the chains on the Merchava tanks going into Kalkilya jingle just like me. 2 Finally I’ve got that contraction right- it’s a split second thing you barely notice but takes forever for a klutz like me to learn especially when I see from the studio window some guy skim down the stairs and I’m not sure whether he’s holding dance gear or an M-16. How easy the other becomes the foe The closer he is, the more dangerous. 3. “Pay attention,” I tell myself as my cane slips from the crown of my head, clatters to the floor, and the whole class stop the dance to look at me. “Control what you need for balance. let the rest move free.” Karen Alkalay-Gut teaches Victorian poetry at Tel Aviv University and writes poetry, as well as taking care of several extended families that take care of her. Write to her at gut22@post.tau.ac.il Visit her web site at http://www.karenalkalay-gut.com/diary, a diary she started this April on the recent events in Israel and Palestine More of Karen's poetry at Ariga Today's Situation
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