Red Horse

from The Meadow by Noel'le Longhaul

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Oh yearning flame
tangling of manes
two bodies in the grove
like logs burning in the woodstove.

It is your legs open on the needles
and your hands on my throat
you cannot feel the wind here
in the thicket of the grove.

While your hand was in my mouth
the smoke was drifting south
it was the black smoke that bred me
from the chimney’s spout.
It was the open world that fed me
with its bread so brown.
It was the little smoking chimnies
and the ice upon the pond.
It was the hawthorne and its berries
the unfurling of the frond.

Forty lashes in the windblown
forty pines that lash the sky
forty hoofprints in the meadow
forty lashes on your eye.

Oh! Hold me down and hit me
though I will bite the bit.
I will gallop smooth and quickly
beneath your saddle and your whip.

I’m a red horse
on a white hill
you will not tame my force
though my mane lies still.

See my panting frame
and call out my name—
but if I steam in the snow,
let me stay in the meadow.

If I do not come back to you
find another who
reeks of leather and the barn
who you can ride into the dawn.

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from The Meadow, released October 22, 2013

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