Perfect synchrony.
Bodies moving as one.
Then the formation fractures,
and individual rhythms emerge.
A culture can celebrate unity
and reward, in private, whoever breaks ranks.
What is gained in moving as one?
What is lost?
Even out of step, each figure keeps
the shape of what it broke away from.
Hold a figure and move it.
A larger form appears,
and the one you moved was part of it all along.