The Family
There are four of them: two solid sorrel horses,
and two spotted goats.
Some permutation of patterns is always grazing
side by side. Or sometimes playing—
Author / Tara K. Shepersky
Twenty-Seven
Looking for myself again
and also trying to lose her
when gray began ungathering toward morning
I anchored my body to beach beside the river.
Coast Starlight on the Home Meridian
The train has cut my moorings, and they trail behind in a long and lonely wake. Simi
Valley Station is, to Amtrak’s tight schedule, the briefest of flirtations, and it’s been anhour. On the southeast horizon, the Santa Monica Mountains keep signalling home.
I am going a long way north on the line called the Coast Starlight,
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