Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COSMIC MICROBE, by BERNARD SEEMAN


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COSMIC MICROBE, by                    
First Line: Today / rears like a / powerful blue-gray
Last Line: Even by yourself.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past


Today
rears like a
powerful, blue-gray stallion
and plunges headlong
toward tomorrow.
You gasp
and hold your breath
and twist your
tiny hands into
his mane.
He rears again
and plunges --
Fearfully
you shut your eyes
and turn within yourself.
Daring not to stare
into the sun,
you cherish feeble,
introspective sparks;
tiny, self-consuming
sparks
that leave no ash.
And you, too,
when you lose your
hectic grip upon his mane
and are unhorsed,
will vanish, traceless,
in the limbo
of dead yesterday;
forgotten,
even by yourself.





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