Tag: poetry

  • Conflagration

    By Patrick Johnston

    A Horse Nation
    A conflagration

    See them prancing
    They come

    Mane flames flutter as they gallop,
    tails streaming blaze.

    Horse sweat, horse smell,
    horse foam on their flanks.

    Flaring nostril teeth,
    eyes whites.

    They reach for cloudless skies.

    Flaming horses
    in their herds,
    as they leap
    unerring
    from Nature’s cruel cliffs,
    clop clop clop
    skyward,
    clad in yellow flames.

    Burning as they go,

    jet trails writ on empty skies.