5/7/2008, 11:10 AM

i ride away with horses

i ride away with horses in a great goodbye glancing back briefly with a gleam of dancers in our eyes see me at the trail up ahead in the sky a pack upon my back filled but leaking dust abounds crystals falling and becoming smooth as glass, an interior of water falls and my horses unite gathering storms in fields of lilies and wild grain sans rope and fear the giant bears of time subdued in dreamless slumber, an interior of caves with no maps horses braying fathoms as their proud hoofs fall beneath clouds which watch human beings toil for truth braying tongues, clacking teeth beseech as my limbs give way to irony once more becoming an interior of questions that have no answers unwilling to be lame we disappear the horses returning to their circus from whence they came carnival dwarfs and beauties of the trapeze riding upon their backs amid the jeering, the cheering, an interior of weird entertainment and in the small torn blue tent I am now nothing more than a wooden dummy moved by the hand of the ventriloquist tell your friends about me….. come and see the show….. “We regret to inform you that the tickets for tonight’s show have been canceled.” ©Larry W Johnson/Larz Boah