Amii's repsonse

Karen,
I chose you because you are a thoughtful person who I don't know well but
you obviously have a sense of investigation in your life. You're not a
dancer but you've been around dance and bodies a lot.
You are kind.

When I turned around finally and saw you gone, I was
surprised, then heartbroken, then so happy for you and the exchange. I was somehow proud of you that you put that punctuation in there. It was so firm and decisive. Oddly,
when I got to the very end of the hallway, I began to 'dance'. That was my
goal. I danced for your absence. I danced anyway. I danced even though you were gone. It felt like the dancing at the very end of the hall was the 'proposal'. I made you wait and wait as I moved over and through obstacles and punctuated time (gurgling was spontaneous but as I
was doing it I realized it was about fracturing time, stopping and
starting, drinking some and never swallowing--an odd uncomfortable
approximation of my interpretation of the waiting one does for a proposal
that will change your life.) then finally arriving at the end of the
waiting and dancing.

but you were gone.

it was beautiful.

that you watched for so long and then found your own end was very moving
to me.

i danced for your absence, for the empty chair.

i proposed to you even though you weren't there.
thank you.