Mister Toebones by Brooks Haxton

Author:Brooks Haxton [Haxton, Brooks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

To Bald Eagle

You were a good workhorse,

gentle for children to ride.

When I leaned forward on your neck

and whispered, I could feel it

that you understood me.

Even in your old age Henry Davis

would have you prance, and he swung down

from the height of your back, easy

out of the saddle when he was eighty.

The mule that shared your stall

for years, Henry told us after he hauled

your body away from the house,

stood screaming over what was left,

for three days. Then, for a few more seasons,

Henry ploughed his cornfield with the mule.

Now, fifty years later, I’m whispering this to myself.

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