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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH PASTURES, by WALKER WINSLOW
First Line: They got their mounts the hard way
Last Line: In the high pastures of his mind.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses
First Line: They got their mounts the hard way
Last Line: In the high pastures of his mind.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses
They got their mounts the hard way
on the high pastures
where the sun was always an hour late
and went under an hour soon.
A million or so hairs all linked and looped
(a riata they called it)
sufficed to snare some leaping roan
with skill that lazy legs can urge
when walking's hard
and slow and rough.
And so they got their horses on the high pastures
the hard way
and rode them into romance
when living got too tame
for some desk-tired guy
with a riata of words at hand
looping a couple of wild roan thoughts
in the high pastures of his mind.
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