{"id":711,"date":"2015-09-26T04:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/diannereid\/?p=711"},"modified":"2015-09-26T04:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T04:43:21","slug":"a-response-to-dance-interrogations-a-diptych-by-jaye-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"A response to &#8220;Dance Interrogations (a diptych)&#8221; by Jaye Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the disorient express<br \/>\nan expression of<br \/>\nproximity to<br \/>\nthe angle of loss<br \/>\nthe moving within parameters, without direction<br \/>\nframe &amp; shift, my body &amp; hers<br \/>\nI meet her gaze, I feel her grief mirror mine<br \/>\nI am hollow<br \/>\nI am rattled<br \/>\nI am moving still<br \/>\nI have taken this train before<br \/>\nbut this journey seems more melancholy<br \/>\ntravel takes its toll on the body<br \/>\nexhausting<br \/>\nfebrile confinement<br \/>\nredrum? or<br \/>\nvintage glory<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s dance!<br \/>\nI am prepared to move<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s a mess in here<br \/>\nlook outside, something&#8217;s passing you by&#8230;.<br \/>\nyou thought you&#8217;d meet someone interesting along the way<br \/>\nyou thought you&#8217;d at least find a comfortable place to rest<br \/>\nbut here you are full of emptiness<br \/>\nhere you are alone with your echoes<br \/>\n&amp; someone else&#8217;s suitcase<br \/>\nare we there yet?<br \/>\nfalling into the past<br \/>\nfalling into disrepair<br \/>\nfalling into each others arms<br \/>\nfaces merging with the facing of truth the loss of youth is not without hope it is blurry &amp; a bit corny but hang on to it don&#8217;t forget that this ride isn&#8217;t over yet&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>cross-dissolve<br \/>\nunbecome the other<br \/>\nbreathless on the threshold of cool austerity<br \/>\nseclusion\/inclusion<br \/>\nauthority meets flesh<br \/>\ndevotion undone<br \/>\nthe singular geminated<br \/>\nthis dis-order of being, sisters of support<br \/>\na mutual knowing under the skin<br \/>\nthe walls whisper.<br \/>\nthe bodies howl.<br \/>\nbeneath habitual movement there is a quivering strength.<br \/>\neviscerated effigies<br \/>\nmemory callipered to bone<br \/>\ndeath is dancing here<br \/>\nreaching out to touch my skin<br \/>\nwitnessing. moving. traversing the length of a lifetime.<br \/>\ni am sliding out of the way. i am becoming a point in space, a point of contact<br \/>\n(or am I just getting in the way?)<br \/>\nshe makes my body hers<br \/>\nrising<br \/>\nfalling<br \/>\nstanding on the edge<br \/>\nsomething&#8217;s burning<br \/>\nthe leap into space<br \/>\ninto waiting arms<br \/>\ninto gravity&#8217;s certain embrace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; the disorient express an expression of proximity to the angle of loss the moving within parameters, without direction frame &amp; shift, my body &amp; hers I meet her gaze, I feel her grief mirror mine I am hollow I am rattled I am moving still I have taken this train before but this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance_interrogations_dianne_reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hipsync.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}