MY WIFE TEACHES ME TO DANCE
When you teach me to dance
I begin to notice fire
dancing with wind, a fish
with water, a car with
colours in the traffic
lights. When you teach me
to dance I begin to see
gravity dancing with a
basketball, a comedian
with a crowd’s laughter, the peanut
butter with the jam, the Moon
with the Earth, the Earth
with the Sun, the Sun
with the Universe.
Everything dancing,
dancing forevermore.
Author’s Bio
Joshua Levy is the CBC Writer-in Residence. He is a recent winner of the Carte Blanche/CNFC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the CBC Writing Competition, and the SLS Fiction Prize. His writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, The Rumpus, and in three Vehicule Press anthologies. Levy lives in Montreal.