Out to Pasture
Each night the man sits alone in a house.
He used to share the house with a wife whom
he shared with no one. But one day the wife
became a horse and galloped off into the woods.
These days he wonders why he too could not simply
become a horse and join his wife in the grass.
For men do not become horses, he knows.
Men become bulls with horns and flared nostrils.
Why he should be a bull, he can find no reason.
Bulls belong in arenas by red matadors,
not outside his living room through the trees.
And so he waits for a time when his horse wife
will desire a human’s company.
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