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when the horse
reintroduces woman
to restoration and pastoral
leases on female life extends
workhorse creativity...[Sage Sweetwater]

when shadows
pick their vision hiding
nothing but intended mystique
because those who think they know
a soul with evil visible features know nothing
of what cosmic gods molded from pure fire and
bourbon-distilled potency labeled star witness

when indian-blanket
puts the design to monitor
wild mustangs decoded on earth
ear shy can't brush her forelock can't
clip her bridlepath or convert her religion

when lips
pronounced with
cupid's bow and indentation
above philtrum is psychic and
as deadly as a rattler when provoked

when love
fails so blind
it retreats under
a cellar where sepia
creeps like a tintype portrait
rehearsing daguerreotype bitumen
of judea resistant to strong acids that
lay bare the unexposed areas

when personality
bedazzles spirit guides in
attendance and when non-veterinarians
think like a door that closes

when another
one opens akashic
record photographs the
workings that one day will
replay like a wanted poster on
a telegraph pole.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist