lemurs cross a clearing
they pause

for ballroom dancing

sooty faces, topaz eyes

 pennon tails flying 

a courtly minuet

 to Tananarive tomtoms

those jungle rhythms
                            pardon my French

mincing steps and Fred Astair leaps
Baryshnikov green with envy

powdered periwigs

tree trunk columns
canopy ceiling shot with sky

 wedgewood blue or teaclipper china

sifakas dancing