the horse spark music
distance drinker lightning behind walls
the horse
ghost or sun of the instant just ended
the horse that flies over the ground
the horse that burns
in the ritual speed of the animals
the sun finds him running through the dawn
agile as a poem
Aridjis, Homero. “The Horse that Comes like Fire.” Trans. W. S. Merwin. Eyes to See Otherwise: Selected Poems = Ojos, de otro mirar. Eds. Betty Ferber and George McWhirter. New York: New Directions Book, 2002. p. 21.
