bookgaga, 6 months ago to poetry "Everybody’s busy, so distraught they forget to kill me, and even that won’t keep me alive. I share my home not with horses, but with a little dog who sees poorly at dusk and menaces stumps, makes her muscle known to every statue." #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry Not Horses by @natalieshapero from Hard Child (2017 Copper Canyon Press) https://tinyurl.com/2s3r9bkt
"Everybody’s busy, so distraught they forget to kill me, and even that won’t keep me alive. I share my home not with horses, but with a little dog who sees poorly at dusk and menaces stumps, makes her muscle known to every statue."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry Not Horses by @natalieshapero from Hard Child (2017 Copper Canyon Press) https://tinyurl.com/2s3r9bkt