THIS HORSE IS THE BOSS OF ME
Mike Wilson
An opening in the ground
in my chest
opens a box that opens another world
bigger
clear, silver, and empty like Montana.
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Steel spurs on my boots are for show:
the barest
motion
sends the horse
galloping through frictionless pixelation
intimate
as my retina.
This mind-blind land is beyond my ken.
I trust the horse
to carry me
where I should go.
"This Horse is the Boss of Me" describes breaking through to the other side, as Jim Morrison put it, where desire carries us through a land we normally cannot see.
MIKE WILSON'S work has appeared in many magazines and in his poetry collections, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic (Rabbit House Press, 2020) and Before the Fall (Kelsay Books, 2026), as well as a debut novel, Food Court, forthcoming in 2026. Mike lives in Lexington, Kentucky. mikewilsonwriter.com