WAY LATE BLOOMER

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  • After decades
  • of donkeying,
  • of moving
  • solidly,
  • bearing
  • whatever
  • cargo
  • needed
  • to be moved,
  • the load
  • is lighter,
  • the bearer
  • weaker,
  • the hooves
  • placed
  • far less
  • surely, the
  • old balance
  • not what it
  • once was,
  • y’know.
  • Vision
  • blurring
  • joints
  • complaining
  • on the
  • familiar trail,
  • for some
  • reason—
  • perhaps it was something carelessly said over dinner—
  • the small
  • gray beast
  • remembers
  • that it is a
  • mustang,
  • a tall, proud roan, mane flowing, long legs pawing the wind,
  • undomesticated descendant of the Conquistadors’ steeds.
  • A case of
  • mistaken
  • identity
  • simple but
  • not easily
  • rectified in
  • the time and space
  • available.