"I dance"

The first page of this poem was a little hard for me to interpret what was going on because it was all just one word per line. This caused some confusion as to what exactly the point of the poem was. Of course as I read on, I was able to recognize that the author was in fact talking about dancing. But I think that this poem has to do with alot more than dancing. I think that "dancing" in this poem actually symbolizes moving forward in life and progressing. She mentions dancing when doing normal everyday things; "I dance to the traffic/to the crowds/to the silence." "I dance cause I'm pissed off/I dance cause I can't study anymore." Not only does the author refer to everyday things and "dances" through them but she also mentions "dancing" to bad times in history; "I dance past the killing fields/ I dance past Wounded Knee/ I dance past the skeletons and bones/ I dance past slave branding and holocaust tattoos." I think that this story passes off a very important message about life, and "dancing" really means moving forward and progressing regardless of mood, history, problems etc.