tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21112460.post-19137113333114816962007-10-23T15:45:00.000-05:002007-10-23T15:46:45.450-05:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">Nijinsky's Legacy</span><br /><br />Nijinsky's powerful upper thighs<br />Friends, Americans, countrymen,<br />Lend Nijinsky a leg<br /><br />Vaslav Nijinsky's missing brain<br />Belated carnation from the early 20th century<br /><br />Our legs take us through summer evenings lawns crickets<br />Our legs erupt into music as we walk.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Kirby Olson</span>'s chapbook <span style="font-style:italic;">Waiting for the Rapture</span> was published by Persistencia Press in 2006. He teaches philosophy and literature at SUNY-Delhi in the western Catskills.RealPoetikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14919138604759914372noreply@blogger.com