horses

All Fall Down

Horses caught

In California wildfires

I want to care about

The rest

Humans hurt and houses lost

Land that will not recover

Easily if at all

But I wonder if they were freed

Or caught on the wrong

Sides of fences

Were they kept in barns or stables

Or were they let free

Could they run from

Terror

Irony

It’s in their veins, the capillaries, the

Marrow of their bones and nuclei

Goading

Their extraordinary muscles

Gifted by Apollo to

Own the sky

Then what is left

When hair and flesh

Are burned, and bone at last

Fails and falls into ash

Will all unbound furies merge

As all mortalities

Risie into heaven where

Animal innocence cleanses all,

Teaching human souls

To gallop, how to dance

In resurrection

C L Couch

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/08/horses-burn-death-california-wildfires-los-angeles-creek-blaze?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=255824&subid=16706344&CMP=GT_US_collection

Pagsamo

Beggars can’t be choosers

If wishes were horses, then

Beggars would ride

Don’t look a gift-horse in

Its mouth

So we should beg for mouthy

Horses

And for wishes

I think I’ve begged, when I’ve

Been scared the most

I begged for life—I begged

For life with you

I begged more than once

For more than one

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