Monday, December 12, 2016

                                Posting

                                A Duet


think of the horse instead of
 how she so controls with
clenching thighs
posting on the pommel

think of the horse instead
of how with breathing leg
they rode together
riding back to the barn

seventeen hands
that wondrous mare that jumped
surely seven foot fences
whenever asked


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                  2016

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