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you are a boy on your small mare searching<\/p>\n
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but neither of us can find her<\/p>\n
in the oysterbed of hoofbeats and wind<\/p>\n
in the torn light between grasses and dunes<\/p>\n
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the lost sword washes up on the sand<\/p>\n
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I urge the white horse of memory<\/p>\n
with a whip and a branch of heather<\/p>\n
your wildest sorrow wet and bright<\/p>\n
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racing the cloudy stallions of afternoon<\/p>\n
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but inside the bedsheet\u2019s dry white tent<\/p>\n
you hold in your face the salty blade<\/p>\n
and I wear by your tears\u2019 consent<\/p>\n
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her wet crown and the pearl at my neck<\/p>\n
as over your shoulder great and riderless<\/p>\n
he comes for you snorting with loose bit<\/p>\n
\u00a0 and reins trailed through hoof gouged moor<\/p>\n
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his saddleless highbred back soaked to one long muscled darkness with rain<\/p>\n
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Elizabeth Myhr<\/a> is a poet, editor and publisher. She holds a BA from the Evergreen State College and an MFA from Seattle Pacific University, has served as artist-in-residence at Centrum, and is a Milotte Foundation scholar.\u00a0In 2010 she co-founded Calypso Editions,<\/a> a virtual, cooperative press that specializes in literature in translation and emerging writers. Elizabeth currently serves as an editor and manager for Marick Press and Calypso Editions, <\/em>and has served as editor at Web Del Sol Review of Books<\/em>, Raven Chronicles<\/em> <\/a>and Shining Horns<\/em>. Her book the vanishings & other poems<\/em> <\/a>was published by Calypso in October, 2011, and was listed by Christianity Today<\/em> as one of its three notable poetry books of 2011. Elizabeth lives in Seattle with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" you are a boy on your small mare searching but neither of us can find her in the oysterbed of hoofbeats and wind in the torn light between grasses and dunes the lost sword washes up on … Continue reading