Nijinsky's Legacy
Nijinsky's powerful upper thighs
Friends, Americans, countrymen,
Lend Nijinsky a leg
Vaslav Nijinsky's missing brain
Belated carnation from the early 20th century
Our legs take us through summer evenings lawns crickets
Our legs erupt into music as we walk.
Kirby Olson's chapbook Waiting for the Rapture was published by Persistencia Press in 2006. He teaches philosophy and literature at SUNY-Delhi in the western Catskills.