A Brown and An Ash Horse

I am both a brown and an ash horse As ash I limp a little and tilt too In the blue field As brown I keep words in your jar Till they are butterfly to disappear In the multicolored air I wanted them for my hair Time did not care I want to put my white rings In your embroidered oval box Awesome nothings that are everything Come out as rhododendrons As we draw the crayons Some of them in the wings of a heron Gold and orange splashing lyrics Linger please A little As the lamplight chats with the keen leaves Of the money plant beside my bed I pant for words of poetry Fireflies laugh with green glee Last night some stars fell there I look for them now near my pillow The ash laughs Red and green up and down In the cardiograph Billows are all gone While putting on the gown Eyes reach at the mirror The brown wears a crown November 21, 2017