Dancing in your houses
by Sarah L Dixon (thequietcompere.co.uk)
Sarah L Dixon
Saturday 15 January 2022

This article is from
Scotland
issue 74
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The kitchen was your space
on Wednesdays, door shut,
dishes took an hour to be washed, dried and put away
as you added 80s choreography
to the journey from dirty
to their cupboard belonging.
Dixon family nights
were meals around a table
then music videos and ale,
five or six bodies
doing their own thing
to Springsteen or The Beatles. Never Abba.
As you bustle about your week
grabbing swimming trunks,
homework books and woggles
you can feel the air
waiting patiently
for Friday.
On Friday,
you put on music
that makes you happy
or music
that lets you be
sad.
The corners
of the front room no-one usually goes in
are filled with wind-milling arms,
looping fingers and
eyes closed pogo-dancing
to Indie, rock and disco.
The night ends and the air
is still again
as you take the tempo down
to contemplative gazing at the shade
of tonight’s night-cap
with Tom Waits or Johnny Cash.
First published on celebratingchange.blog, 2019
Cover photo: Foad Roshan
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