Tarantella

My beloved read Ibsen in college, unlike me. He told me the name of the dance in The Doll's House. I have always read a lot, but somehow missed Ibsen. I knew the squirrels were dancing a wild dance, converting the backyard into one massive dance floor.

Ibsen

Was never part

Of the literature I read

In college

Or after.

I watch the squirrels

Chase each other

In the backyard.

It is a wild dance

Across the lawn,

The jumps from tree

To tree,

Branch to branch.

Even though Ibsen

Was never part

Of what I read,

It strikes me

That the squirrels

Are involved

In the tarantella,

And I,

I get to watch.