Divorce Dancing
By Assunta Maria Vickers, Inland Empire Branch
A memory on what should have been my 35th anniversary
As a child I loved to dance ~ especially
twirls ~ round and round until finally
dizzy I fall on the grass and watch the
sky spin round and round…
slower and slower until finally it stops and
the blood in my head catches up with
my eyeballs and I lie there not even
wanting to move as I begin to notice
the tingling in my fingers and toes
that reminds me that I am so alive
inside
Now I am in a final dance with my
soon to be “Ex” ~
my husband of 17 years ~ and we have to
coordinate our moves as we go round and round
with the other dancers in this choreograph
called divorcing and it is taking so
long and I am definitely dizzy from all
the spinning round and round as I
watch the years be torn to pieces of
things they call assets …
and I want it to go slower and slower
because it’s so hard to really actually
let go but then my blood sometimes boils
and I want it to just go faster so that it will
please finally STOP, so that I can feel
the tingling in my heart and soul and
learn how to be alive again
“Divorce Dancing” appeared in the
September 2019 edition of the Inland Empire
newsletter “Fresh Ink.”
Assunta Maria Vickers has been published two years in a row
in the California Writers Club annual Literary Review.