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Slack Wire Dancer

from A Bit of Change by Edward St Moritz

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A story about my father. Every word true. “Catenary” is the line produced by a chain or cable suspended between two fixed points. Lake Erie storms are wondrous terrifying, by the way.

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Slack wire dancers

Sometimes on Sunday morning At his cottage by the lake
My father took a cable out Hung it between the stakes
There was no stretch or tension For his catenary play
He was a slack wire dancer A slack wire chancer
A slack wire prancer Back in the day.

The Dutch army recruited He was the company cook
Their circus saw him practice One set was all it took
Balancing with one leg chairs A table set with wine
He was their slack wire dancer their slack wire prancer
They cheered their entrancer One more time

A human body rolling Like Lake Erie’s waves
One step to place the balance no hand to save
Don’t look down

My father and my mother came To this Canadian grace
But the centre of their family Shifted out of place
Whatever dreams they may have had
Slipped through the cracks of life
They were slack wire dancers Slack wire chancers
And one after another fell into night

It was on Sunday mornings At the cottage by the shore
My father took the cable out But not any more
I look back at my life And ask if I’m like him
A slack wire dancer An off-balance prancer
Some stage frightened chancer
Once again

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from A Bit of Change, released April 30, 2020

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Edward St Moritz Barrie, Ontario

Ed lives in Collingwood Ontario.

He and Don Bray produced his first CD of original songs Small Things Shining Bright and has just completed a second project A Bit of Change with Ray Dillard.

Why a darkside navigator?
“I am responsible for the directions I take in those gray territories. I do go into depression, but I also know how to sail through it. My songs are the maps of experience there.” ... more

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