Jennifer Grotz
Everything was moving, pixilated, snow
splintering down and nestling in the yellow grass.
March: a constant darting in the corner of my eyes,
time of year the world wants us to look
several places at once. And smell: mixture of hay and mud,
sunlight on straw, and not a scent but a tickle
in the nose while brushing the horse
to help him shed his winter coat, the hair falling
in wisps and clumps, inciting the barn swallows'
deft descents from the rafters to pick up
a single blade of straw, a beakful of hair
for weaving a nest that will be soft and warm.
All winter the horse had paid closer attention to me
than any human. When I rode him bareback,
all I had to do was look
where I wanted to go and he could sense
from my seat all the way up my back
the slight direction my neck had turned.
He weighed 953 pounds. To make him stop,
all I had to do was hold my breath.
from the journal BIRMINGHAM POETRY REVIEW
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"I’ve wanted in recent poems to think about time as cyclical and not just chronological, to pay attention to days and months not just in terms of seasons but as existential or metaphysical zones. March is a liminal time, and the liminal seems to invite an acute attention. Here I practice that attention while learning from and marveling at a horse’s exquisite sensitivity." 

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"For days I could go nowhere. The temperature dwelled stubbornly below freezing. The roads were too slick to walk on. My car was encased in ice, a solid blue cube, and, quite comically, a red bicycle, leaning against a nearby shed, seemed to be waiting for me. I sat at the window, wearing two sweaters, looking at it."
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