Foal in the Sunlight

2021

4 min.

Song for SSATTB. Written for Variant Six.

Foal in the Sunlight

Foal in the sunlight

All eyes crawling to you

Spread your wings in burning dew

I’m clasping the clod

That set you loose

That broke the cloud

That keeps collapsing on

The heap of you

Foal in the muscle-slick of moonlight

All eyes flashing in recoil

Ocean foaming from the soil

Foal, floating feather

Flung from the flesh of the femur

I’m clasping the clod

That set you loose

That broke the cloud

That keeps collapsing on

The heap of you

text by Christopher Douthitt