Hazard of the Crooked Horseshoe
hoof flight
on the inside
of the stride
hoof and leg collide
winging in
protect the hard surface of a name
valley threw
a curve crooked
and lame
cobbler said
old trade make
the shoe fit
U-shaped
saddlebreds and draft
hot coals forged firepit
firebrand rides
against the wind
with prophetic significance
said such things not schoolbookish
but omenized from cosmic life herein
blackbirds in the maize foretold the hazard
of the crooked horseshoe
pulp fiction
composition in
verse spotted with
piebald and written
in palomino gold upon
the pommel nailing fresh
nails on the corral boards
the bleached vertabraes wasted
from social disease lying snapped
at the head in the execution the firebrand
never fails
Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
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the unconventional shoe isn't just a puzzle for the posse but in its own right a guide to the masses to alternative and equally valid if not moreso values and attitudes.
Firebrand Sage burns bright!
John
to keep up with your creative output. But no
complaints, for Sweetwater never fails...
verse...written in palomino gold.
-gene.