<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">The Dance</span><div><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">I would have each couple turn,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">join and unjoin, be lost<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">in the greater turning<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">of other couples, woven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">in the circle of a dance,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">the song of long time flowing</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">over them, so they may return,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">turn again in to themselves<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">out of desire greater than their own,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">belonging to all, to each,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">to the dance, and to the song<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">that moves them through the night.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">What is fidelity? To what<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">does it hold? The point<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">of departure, or the turning road<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">that is departure and absence<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and the way home? What we are<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and what we were once</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">are far estranged. For those<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">who would not change, time<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">is infidelity. But we are married<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">until death, and are betrothed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">to change. By silence, so,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I learn my song. I earn</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">my sunny fields by absence, once<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and to come. And I love you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">as I love the dance that brings you<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">out of the multitude<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">in which you come and go.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love changes, and in change is true.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wendell Berry</span></p></div></div></body></html>