THE EARTH HORSE

She's there when ellipses
Of oak shade cut the lawn,
When loam-dark mares and foals
In mute unison
Take scads of mane-mute grasses.
Then, rising when they're done,
She ambles back to lazuli,
The other side of dawn.



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"The Earth Horse" is featured on the CD The Horsewatcher's Songs by composer Eugene E. Lassek.
The Horsewatcher's Songs also is available in sheet music for SATB and narrator. 

Copyright © 2007 by Bradley Steffens