Centaur's Requiem
By Adrienne Rich
Your hooves drawn together underbelly
shoulders in mud your mane
of wist and soil deporting all the horse of you
your longhaired neck
eyes jaw yes and ears
unforgiveably human on such a creature
unforgiveably what you are
deposited in the grit-kicked field of a champion
tender neck and nostrils teacher water-lily suction-spot
what you were marvelous we could not stand
Night drops an awaited storm
driving in to wreck your path
Foam on your hide like flowers
where you fell or fall desire
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