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Break Maiden Bet, (Off-Track) | Chad M. Horn - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Break Maiden Bet, (Off-Track) | Chad M. Horn

broke from start gate unbroken unladen
circulatory soul-sprint reviving
breaking stride to be beside Break Maiden
sometimes showing, (more often: surviving)
racing under extreme pressure, (driving)
telephotographic sights surveyor
coddled and throttled, thoroughly thriving
re-learning lingo, equine naysayer
track conditions call for added layer
both underbettors and overthinkers
homestretch prayer: Let her be a ‘stayer’
saddling up, removing our blinkers
(big picture focused with blinkers detached)
intuiion predicted early scratch

Papa’s Photos | Ivan Jenson - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Papa’s Photos | Ivan Jenson

With his
bull terrier
temperament
he stood like Monet

by the San Fernando Valley pool
of rippling blue relatives
some in mid summersault
while other under
water kids in loud swim suits
spouted splash from their lips
like plaster cupids
and him snapping, “Hold still!”
trying to get the shot
for all time

and here I am
now a thirty
year old later
thumbing through
the
negatives

of us kids
under developed
we look like
fish apples
bobbing above water

visual inside out
legacies
we were
his water lilies

it was so like him
to leave behind these
Kodak canvases

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