The Rescue

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The man sits in a timelessness 
with the horse under him in time 
to a movement of legs and hooves 
upon a timeless sand.

Distance comes in from the foreground 
present in the picture as time
he reads outward from
and comes from that beginning.

A wind blows in
and out and all about the man 
as the horse ran
and runs to come in time.

A house is burning in the sand. 
A man and horse are burning. 
The wind is burning.
They are running to arrive.

© Robert Creeley