Beyond Forgetting by Howard White & Emma Skagen & Steven Heighton

Author:Howard White & Emma Skagen & Steven Heighton [White, Howard & Skagen, Emma & Heighton, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, Al Purdy, anthology, Canadian, Tribute
ISBN: 9781550178470
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Published: 2018-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Cornelia Hoogland

Al Develops His Pleasures

Al’s arm was amputated,

this made him so miserable he got

a species reassignment.

He grew four legs. Became a horse.

Immediately his friends wanted a ride.

Whoa! he said. He wanted to develop his new

identity slowly, wasn’t sure what his equine pleasures

involved. Movement and speed?

A concern for the terrain? Blinkhorn Trail,

for example, involved too much footwork.

As for his love life, he was the only horse around.

This concerned him. And Eurithe.

She scrolled obscure websites

for combs to curry his backside in a way she hoped

was pleasurable, and yes, she noticed

he twitched his mane, half-closed his big eyes.

Or should she post an ad, find him a more suitable mate?

It wasn’t clear if the change was permanent

or transitory—how much effort should she, or he, invest?

Corralled in his horse flesh, what could he do,

people saying, Let’s go see Al who’s become a horse,

and cracking horse jokes. A horse walks into a bar,

the bartender asks why the long face?

Al might have explained, but all that came out

was a whinny. And his friends only wanted rides.

Al didn’t budge, he stood there, sniffing the air.

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