So, here's a recent piece. It hasn't been edited or anything so feel free to rip it to shreds. This was written as 1/24/2019 of my year-long poem a day challenge.
Your Horses
You forget
you read the gate open
Ur head said I would regret it
but you mouth couldn’t
shape the words
Okay?
Are you okay?
Put that cheek on the mattress
and fall back on a nap
Falling is easiest when you
precarious stand long
alling it all
When you wake up
your horses will be saddled
so you may take
a ride with wide strides
jounce the someday away
When you come in
they’ll be hitched for you
wild in reins and loving
themselves for longer
than your childhood self
could count out loud
Your horses misbehave
they gave away
their manes for fiddlebows
You couldn’t forgive them
a little glue and gluttony
will weigh their tastes
To this day I can’t eat red meat
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