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ENCHANTMENT

Part I

Night	The moonlight: Juice flowing from an over-ripe pomegranate bursting The cossack-crested palm trees: motionless The leopard spotted shade: inciting fear silence seeds sown .
Part II
Medicine Dance	A body smiling with black beauty Leaping into the air Around a grotesque hyena-faced monster: The Sorcerer— A black body-dancing with beauty Clothed in African moonlight, Smiling more beauty into its body. The hyena-faced monster yelps! Echo! Silence— The dance Leaps— Twirls— The twirling body comes to a fall At the feet of the monster. Yelps— Wild— Terror-filled— Echo—