Amal Surmawala, midnight dances

midnight dances Amal Surmawala

New Year’s begins with gunshots and fireworks and a declaration to ce-le-brate good times outside, in the cold, with no jackets, and a little black speaker New Year’s begins with dynamic stretches with strategic movements to garner warmth in synchronized and unsynchronized beats as swinging legs begin to move forming a circle, first stationary and then in motion, till the movement takes on its own breathiness, its own life, and we start our own little tradition in the dead of night where gunshots do not terrify and the cold is but a backdrop New Year’s begins with little giggles, little sparks of laughter to warm us on some other cold day in the distant future New Year’s begins with a lively little circle with a not-so-secret ritual and while the sun on 2022 has yet to rise we feel its heat already in the sweat, in the smiles of these here midnight dances