In the Reins

One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests Where he lays in the reins For all of the speed and the strength he gave One more kiss tonight from some tall stable girl She's like grace from the earth When you're all tuckered out and tame One mor

Give this stone to my brother Because we found it playing in the barnyard Many years ago Give this bone to my father He'll remember hunting in the hills When I was ten years old May my love reach you all I lost it in myself and buried too long Now th

Beyond the ridge to the left, you asked me what I want Between the trees and cicadas singing around the pond "I spent an hour with you, should I want anything else?" One grinning wink like the neon on a liquor store We were sixteen, maybe less,

Louise only got from me innocent poetry Although she played to not listen But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else Ever could offer the same Some say she knowingly tastes like a recipe All those so foolish and willing I said, "Babe, I can