Driving on New Years Day

You're on 81 north and 

avoiding the last piece of 

conversation in the trapped 

air of the Ford Fiesta

somewhere between Virginia and Tennessee 

so you look right 

and see a horse 

alone in a field 

that's sloping down, down 

to a creek 

Its head was bent toward a patch of green, shocking 

neon green grass 

edged in by bare 

trees with their dead 

hands reaching 

up into low lying 

fog clouds 

Just one horse 

in a private moment 

that you're stealing and claiming

as your own.

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