Nature

Basket Dance

by Amy Lowell 1874–1925

From Ballads for Sale (1927): Songs of the Pueblo Indians

Nature

Dance!
Dance!
The priest is yellow with sunflower meal,
He is yellow with corn-meal,
He is yellow as the sun.
Dance!
Dance!
His little bells are ringing,
The bells tinkle like sunlight,
The sun is rising.
Dance!
Dance!
Perhaps I will throw you a basket,

Perhaps I will throw you my heart.

Lift the baskets, dancing,
Lower the baskets, dancing,
We have raised fruits,
Now we dance.
Our shadows are long,
The sunlight is bright between our shadows.
Do you want my basket?
Catch it!
Catch it!
But you cannot catch me,

IT am more difficult.

MLA

Lowell, Amy. “Basket Dance.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/488/.

Chicago

Lowell, Amy. “Basket Dance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/488/.

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