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How to Feed a Horse
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How to Feed a Horse is a manuscript in three parts: One, “Ranch Poems,” activities, contemplations, awareness of the creek environment. Two, “Numerology,” disparate poems that invite us to consider the absurd in our language, politics, history, and human relationships. Three, “Her(e),” conversations with a network of women, some imagined, some historic, some intimate. The author’s preoccupations with climate change and our deteriorating planetary environment surface as she gives herself over to be witness to the landscape, its decline and perseverance, its glory and rich legacy. The poems are also love poems; they show the ecstasy and shock of the now.
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Chapter one
Home
Canyon wren has begun another nest inside the ranch house
northeast corner of a window sill
black and white dog hair
longer silvery hair of dog owner
mattress liningleavestiny twigs
all improve the lost art of reading—that wordy network
of pleasure and contemplation
the seeing and the sitting, coming and going arrangement
tending to earth birthdays and then the feeding
with her long bill and mate’s falling soprano call
canyon wren flits and dives in and out of the cabin made from
creek trees
through her secret hole under the eaves
she’s begun a new novel, a bildungsroman
Chapter two
Canyon Wren Moving, Transfer and Storage
The nest had disappearedno tracebut found on the floor
the tender center made of dog and human hair
inside the second door the wren flew and flit flew and flit
buzzing with perk
from bathroom to kitchen and out through the ceiling to bright
foliageand in again to scoot the floors and hop from pan
to pan
the woman sat in meditation at the window
the oriole nest that had hung high as decoration over her seat
had fallen to the floor
fluffy dog hair of Zoe, life magnificentgorgeous coyote dog
with black eyeliner
was missing inside the woven orb
Chapter three
Sound Pillows
The sky opened at 5:20 with orange pillows
cool breeze on her face
then the song, the cascading soprano waterfall
a river through canyon walls of operatic proportion
the song was right here
right here in the house
Chapter four
Electricity
After she fed the dogs and exited the kitchen she glanced
toward the ceiling atilted ’50s light shade centering the wallboard
the nest!
the bird simply tweezered the whole production and moved it
from porch window to living room
the fire made in the antique Ashley stove warmed the whole
familystock dogstiny brown speckled eggsand woman
with long silver hair
Chapter five
Moon
She napped dreamily that afternoon as the sky darkened and the
wind sang through the canyons in ripeness
branches and leaves swayed a hula made from desert
rain forest in preparation for the deluge
it would not come till a moon slice past midnight and ferociously
ping the tin roof for an hour
ta-tamp tamp ta-tamp ta-tamp tamp ta-tamp
ta-tamp tamp
Chapter six
The End & Return
a virtually unstudied bird
—Tucson Audubon office
—Tucson Audubon office
now the nest destroyed
like the year before and the year before
(the one inside the Weber grill lid outside)
dispersal destruction fury
other builders out there, other pairs, other pulsating lovers
ovum hardshell fusion chick
fledged
hopping the dance somewhere
moonwalking a tin roofflying the world
Water Wonder
In Arizona summer clouds cover and soften the land and skin
a few dropsa few dropswhile in North Dakota a two-pound hailstone
gets stored in a freezer for show
oceans lakes and rivers poisoned daily by war and transportation
miningmedicinenuclear fissionand cow pies
what meaning does the dog find with her radar ears and laser nose (the one
who didn’t get hit by the killer hail)
who didn’t get hit by the killer hail)
one more chew of green grassone more drink from the creek
Chama
Up the brown curve of earth then a shift
to jagged ridge and downward into green river swirl
The majesty of red dirt and green water touch
her hands dipped from a crouch, the muscles in the
thighs taut and off balance feels good
icy green water from the red mountains promise more
green like verdolagas and alfalfa
good mammalian food and then a rise up, a stand...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Bull’s Eye
- Ranch Triptych
- Coyote Dog
- CANYON WREN
- Chapter one: Home
- Chapter two: Canyon Wren Moving, Transfer and Storage
- Chapter three: Sound Pillows
- Chapter four: Electricity
- Chapter five: Moon
- Chapter six: The End & Return
- Water Wonder
- Chama
- Fluorescence
- Conjuring
- Late Fall
- (tiny opera of grief)
- San Juan’s Day
- How to feed a horse
- Little Sure Shot
- NUMEROLOGY
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- HER(E)
- Now 70
- Sophie
- Immigrants
- Etymology Tree
- Royal Whim
- Translation
- How to repair with eyes complex enough they know in all directions
- Solution
- Elder
- Story
- Ambush
- Gender-flipping on Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)
- Guidebook to the Maladies
- For Barbara Allen
- Red Juice
- Closure
- Even grief gets hungry and demands more grief.
- Defining the Rules
- Transfiguration
- Would a prophet undo clutter in the writing?