It's Still Life

At an Intersection Named After an English King and a Saint
Six Sentence Story: Part 33

Danse de Caractère

On the rim of morning as sunrise panelbeats stars into the sky … Brigid dances.

Her silhouette fades in and out of the moonlight, slips between winter bare trees, a tour en l’air as she leaps over fallen trees, ferns and mosses (… she doesn’t notice Pierre watching).

She dances until the music in her head vanishes, until her song is gone. Until the throat of primordial morning wakes another song in her.

This is her danse de caractère, her la petite mort.

And Pierre’s heart feels their continents drift apart.

Previous Instalments – To access all of the instalments on one page, please use this link

Written for Denise’s Six Sentence Story including the word “panel”.  Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. Imagery and poems/prose ©Misky 2006-2024.

Notes: 1) Panel beat or panel beater definition (a car body repairman) 2) la petite mort: I know there are other usages of this phrase, but I use it as losing something from life, loss. Thomas Hardy used the phrase in Tess of the D’Urbervilles to describe how Tess felt after encountering a sorrowful omen.