april is poetry month #21
ALL THE BROKEN HORSES The horses are turning toward you, a long row of caramel napes, manes, wet pools of black eyes. They have the information about the baby, the red-spotted bowl, who is sliding backwards down the skinny hall. The floor, the floor, the floor. The grey kitchen wall slides open onto the burnt-orange room its bumpy white counterpane, its collection of Double Mint. This is where they keep the babies in drawers, the chicklets in electric beds. Oh, hot…