Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Smitten
Professor Denzler amazed at
the parallel to the sexual dances
of New Hano and other Pacific islands
Yet Marjorie Dawning had invented it herself.
Performed it at the Lions.
He had room in the budget to invite her to the Anthropology Club, then to show the old British Pathe footage of the island dances.
Frenzies might be the better label.
Anyway, her performance seized grad
student Bill Ortway, and he later stood in
the sudden ice storm outside her small
hotel and stared.
Bea Hoddles noted him from the kitchen
window as she made sandwiches for
Room Service.
Later brought him hot chocolate.
Her art wasn’t dance but warmth, and
Bill quickly changed the object of his
smittenness.
She brought him home that midnight,
and her helter-skeltered dolls glowed
in approval.
Labels: attraction, behavior, culture, cultures, loneliness, seduction, sex, smitten
