The Wrong Cat by Lorna Crozier

Author:Lorna Crozier [Crozier, Lorna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7710-2392-7
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2015-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

The next full tide I let him go.

Man from the Cariboo

He rode into the yard with five white horses,

And he in the middle on a big black,

His face burnt and chapped. I wanted

A horse more than a man, I told him that,

Bargained for a mare with legs like rifles

That fired when she galloped, and me

No more than wind on her withers.

Above me in my bed, sunlight rode the saddle

Of his long back. Nothing could break him

Though my touch, strong and sure as water,

Calmed the tremors, untied the knots,

Gentled his need to leave at the first

Call of dawn outside the window.

After he left, the mare wouldn’t come near.

So white she is, she disappears in mist

Lifting from the grass, the breath

Of winter sleepers dreaming under drifts.

In the meadow, I wait for her to come to me

Without a rope or bridle, my hands

Offering her my hands.

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