But for mounds of crumbling dung the old horse
has disappeared. Ropes of dried dog shit lay like
braids piled atop a faker’s head.

Wearing a cloche hat with a feather sticking up,
a demon is standing at my door trying to get in.
“Go away!” I yell. “I don’t need you anymore!”

Like a bird rising to where my thoughts were,
a poem begins:

In January, Poseidon's bull gores fat clouds,
causing winds to moan in as myth pregnant
with glistening horses emerging from seas's
sodden
bed to gallop across the sky as gray
cumulonimbus beings.