ODE TO AN APPALOOSA STALLION

       Spotted veteran of love,

you were made for fucking.

       Wooing the mare with a tender nuzzle,

you rub her nether petals

       till they open

pink and dewy as a magnolia,

       before you climb aboard

and set your hips a-bucking.

       I see your white hide crawl,

black rosettes shudder

       (like a scoopful of coal

dropping through snow),

       and come alive

at the snort of your sunburnt nose,

       your sweetbags twitching

peppery as stars.

       If only I could have

the blunt fury of your limbs,

       yowl and pump

like a desperado,

       feel the sun on my neck

burning old as a motto,

       then life coming,

the wheat spellbound in the fields.