taken from
explicit scandal
the high comes down
to visit the low plains

wild horses run
for the women who
inspire groundbreaking
religion as wild as sage
jerusalem- exodus 37:17

abraham's bush- exodus 3:2
and the judas tree- matthew 27:3
have biblical roots under the wild
mustangs hooves that made us famous,
isaiah 5:28- parallel translation- their arrows
are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horse's
hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a
whirlwind

we lean against
the wheels of our
wagon at the thundering
with our powder river hymnals
open, we read a firebrand psalm

"the Oath
of a time when
an 1870s saloon cut
loose of its spirits and
the forked-stick witching
found a fiery vein of prophecy,
polygamy's phoenix reborn as example
of destruction and revival"

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist