Forming the content of this week’s piece is a depiction of a Russian male ballet performer endowed with an uncanny ability—an ability that the title below aptly describes:
Defier of Natural Law
Vaslav Nijinsky
was his name,
a legendary dancer
whose claim to fame
was his super-
natural
ability
to defy the law
of gravity
where, in every jump
he made
it appeared
as if
he stayed
a jaw-dropping length
of time in the air
as if held
by something
unseen up there—
his phenomenal
feat
an anomaly
in the annals
of balletic
history…
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department of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire | Wikipedia Unknown photographer of the photography
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