When Two Art Forms Collide, What Happens?

Vanessa Blakeslee
7 min readMar 23, 2020

A selection of poems inspired by dance

The Swamp-Goddess

She appeared to me once, out back

in the shed I built with my Pa —

where we disappear to play guitar.

One day at fourteen I stumbled in upon her:

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).