Transitions for Dancers When Dance Is No Longer an Option

← v8n1, Spring 2009

A nostalgic poem about learning to tap dance in 1968 amid family memories and the era's turbulence.

Full text for this piece is being migrated from the archive.

Catherine MacDonald’s chapbook, How to Leave Home , is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in June, 2009. Her poems are also forthcoming or have appeared in Washington Square , Crab Orchard Review , The Cortland Review , Southern Indiana Review , and other journals. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. Photo by John Ulmschneider