Love Poem: Centaur

Nothing approaches a field like me. Hard

gallop, hard chest—hooves and mane and flicking

tail. My love: I apprehend each flower,

each winged body, saturated in a light

that burnishes. I would make a burnishing

of you, by which I mean a field in flower,

by which I mean, a breaching—my hands

making an arrow of themselves, rooting

the loosened dirt. I would make for you

the barest of sounds, wing against wing,

there, at the point of articulation. Love,

I pound the earth for you. I pound the earth.