Louis Aragon wrote a very famous poem with his partner’s eyes in mind
A long song to her sung by a troubadour who dreamed and practiced both communism and human right
It was this very same Aragon who was not afraid of editing a newspaper with a non-communist
A just male without any fear in building a world without kings of queens but of universal kin
A loving personage who has long since left both his body and mind
What’s left is his text a classic now “Les yeux d’Elsa”
or Elsa’s eyes in English and not mid 20th century French
which speaks nothing of Elsa’s motion dance her freedom her own doing’s chant
her eyes being close to the visual culture of monarchs and courts and not of democratic stance
Her choices her expression her singing her person
What was Elsa’s dance?
Let’s just say that Elsa is dancing Rock and Roll or Hip Hop or House music today
As a white woman with every biological ability of giving birth to a black child
She dances to a black / human aesthetic all night as a mode of her own light
to the dynamic of production in a society of cities of borders and of surplus
to the sociological underpinnings of technology like a record player
Ivy forever and this time
Ivy Beach, poet writer teacher ecologist organizer concerned beautifully-hearted gender neutral woman
Ivy dances Ivy living a society governed by capital and complicity and no longer by feudal power
a said democracy racist full of misogyny and bigotry
no longer governed by familial relations of production
ours is a patriarchal society where fascism is capitalist liberalism’s twin
Where a male poet has much to learn about gender and his mind’s ills
Ivy dances
In her own very way
where her eyes are not necessarily for display
Her intimacy is managed by a thinking existentialist feminist with every right
to define both walk and rest
Moon and test
clarity and rain day and night a woman
unobliged to be defined by a man and his troubadourist lyrics
A secret an answer a body a conviction a dream a lesson in being and doing
An Elsa of her own time
Human as intended and so mysterious mystery both grammar and quiet.
Los Angeles, 2019
