Poetry: The Ballerina by Marisa Webster
![](https://www.frontierpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MarisaWebster-900x540.jpg)
“The Ballerina,” by Marisa Webster, holds together with the glue of its own unmistakeable question: when does a ballerina stop being a ballerina? i.e. When does an identity become a story and no longer a lived reality? Through prosaic syntax…