priestless pressless confessional
unhinged conditional cascades of what-if-disasters?
my hands steady the chain-bit, unbridle the mount
think of me as a hoarse whisperer, patient to fault
lines, fences crossed, I can tame any wild oats secret
loose clinks fall into my acceptance on tack room floor,
whoop laughter patters like-spittle into dust, open doorways
soothe, say, bareback without fear of whip, or chuck
on tender edge of lip. We are gentler here, taboos unkink,
past bound or free into gallop-buck-wheel, nourishment, into green
shoots, blades, the violence of pastures thrive no more than this