Toby MacNutt

The Map, the World, the Dancer

Today, they are making the world. A dancer's feet	Formless Ground	Enter: jump clean, slide R to 3x stomp
are carving branching curves into a smooth bed of clay, sinuous limbs	River Delta	slide up over — river toes slow sine,
turning square, rising, and with each step the ground to match;	Steppes	reverse, square to L, rising hop-ups into roll front
moisture, puddling around red-smeared feet and ankles, squelching	Glacier Valley	cinq plank, down curl open sweep both L close,
between toes, under arches, piling earth into thin sloping banks; rising,	Mountain Ridge	elbows in! pop up, dub butterfly drag, L R L rnd.
with terra cotta cracking at elbows and belly, moving ever outward, ever higher;	High Desert	elev, wobble circle, spiral trip turns 4x, flying
piercing the churned surface, wells filling, columns rising unevenly round, out, out	Ruined Stone	dips/pulls scatter, burrow toes
out until wandering has purpose, ease, momentum, running till at last	Road to the Known	travel down R down down R down L up more L
as the great fire is lit beneath the clay, stamping home.	Home	quick out L, close home pos, fin

Toby MacNutt is a creator and teacher from Vermont. Their choreography has not, to date, produced any cartography, but perhaps that should change. Other poems have recently been published by Goblin Fruit, Liminality, and New Myth. More: TobyMacNutt.com, or Twitter @tylluan.