How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin, She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand; She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin; I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand . . . . . . . . These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways).  –Theodore Roethke, “I Knew a Woman,” 9-11, 31-32   In his love poem to the Muse, Roethke exalts in how she uses the body, through dancing and singing, to guide him through the pleasures of verse, of wave-making, of undulation. The turn, counter-turn, and stand (terms Ben Jonson adapted from Pindaric odes: strophe, antistrophe and epode) embody poetry’s ancient beginnings in dance and song.  The Pindaric odes…