'to a movement of legs and hooves'

Thinking of Robert Creeley tonight led me to The Poetry Foundation.

It's been too long since I posted.


The Rescue
by Robert Creeley (1991)

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.