Eli Halpern
"Lethal Roan"

 

chain in

which the horse is a joint

physically out

planes no

longer contingent

till the point

physically out

 

we make it far enough that

roaning follows

and a deer tick in its muscle

in quotient

which levels

to a physic

here

limited to walk

having drawn out the ticks roosted

in her guessing

after hair

peeled to a walk

she is missed a mane

 

whether we begin

by solving the gait

or start off in the dogwoods

necessary

and giving a

mane levels

 

to bite an odd muscle

wasn't before

we wonder calling a grove

 

in the branches I am

devouring a horse