SWIMMING WITH HORSES

I think about you
swimming with horses.

How you ride into sea
at dawn. How the horse you love

will leap at a wave. Tell me
how the sky would break

with light, and the horse
would float when the beach

fell away. How you both
drift free, bobbing in the swell.

How the legs gallop in the deep
and you let the reins go.

Hugging the horse
like I am the horse.