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.