Scaramouche, Scaramouche, Will You Do the Fandango?

Some Wikipedia info on the sarabande: 



In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation. The quarters are said to corresponded with dragging steps in the dance.


The baroque sarabande is commonly a slow triple rather than the much faster Spanish original, consistent with the courtly European interpretations of many Latin dances. This slower, less spirited interpretation of the dance form was codified in the writings of various 18th century musicologists; Johann Gottfried Walther wrote in his Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1723) that the sarabande is "a grave, … somewhat short melody," and Johann Mattheson likewise wrote in Der Vollkommene Capellmeister (Hamburg, 1739) that the sarabande "expresses no passion other than ambition".




And so, this...

Sarabande

Norma Cole

“and then looks at
the stars” from the
bed in the ambulance


looks up at boughs of
trees shifting quickly
lit in blackness


blackening soft, deep
siren’s song—she died
several times that night


and only in the weeks
to come started and
started to come back


then forward which is
real life