Pagosa Springs Artists

The Carousel 

 

carries taut equestrian limbs
in furious flight, a horse race
frozen in time, where carved
nostrils permanently flare,  painted
teeth are forever bared,  panting
wooden necks always reach,  airborne
legs strain and breach, their speed and
freedom captured in music--
a mirrored, gilded, glorious ride
 gone in an instant

 

first published in Limestone Poetry Journal

 

© 2004 Bonnie Manion

 
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