Showing posts with label Shane McCrae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shane McCrae. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2015

"Horses Running Fast," by Shane McCrae

"Whisper," by Duy Huynh



Horses Running Fast
by Shane McCrae
 
We married in an open field a wide
And open field a field of wild and run- / ning
horses wide a field of horses run- / ning through
we married in an open wide
Running and full        of horses open
field / And in we married in        and in we mar- / ried in in
one direction they the hors- / es they
disguised the wind as horses in the wind/The horses running
fast in one / Direction
as the horses running through        / The horses as the horses run- / ning through
and each of us as me and you / As horses running fast
In one direction and
no animal outruns its past



[Image above by Duy Huynh]
Poem via Verse Daily

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I just love Shane McCrae's poems. There's no one writing like him right now. If you haven't already, please rush out and read his newest collection, Forgiveness Forgiveness. Here's a brief review I wrote of that book for Columbus Alive, the local arts newspaper.
 
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