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Thursday, January 30, 2014

In the Year of the Horse


ZEN GALLS

 
My pony would stand and let me

Crumble the night-eyes on his fore-legs -

Extraordinary muskiness -

Raised, dry, broken and calloused

Like a dead wart or the crust on a roast
 
Or a shank truffle.

And my dog would be snaffled by the smell

Of the pieces that broke away

And the three of us would share
 
A weird sacrament.

 

It seems that time is an illusion

And that its only purpose is so that

Everything doesn’t happen at once.

 

That old chestnut!
 

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