Unwanted Guest

Unwanted Guest

A fever came to visit last month; inconvenient, but I didn’t think much of it. Not Covid, not flu, no sickness symptoms packed in its bags. It insisted on sleeping with me, poking and jostling through the night, taking my covers and leaving me shivering, then draping...
Moment of connection

Moment of connection

The huge horse turns his head all the way to the left, straining to see his herd mates in the pasture, from his right eye. The empty socket on his left side looks a little ghoulish, but it doesn’t bother him. In fact, he likes to have me rub inside it, where the skin...
I Belong

I Belong

The waves thrum faint from outside the beach house. I open the window just a little, letting the damp salt wind sift through the bedroom, and the rhythm of the surf roll in.  It calls me; changing colors and changing tides tugging me out of my busy mind. ...
Being a better human

Being a better human

The large roan gelding stands frozen, eyes cautious and unblinking. I sit to his left and behind, the belly of the long lead rope on the ground, giving the two of us space. The cold of the arena creeps into my back, and I breathe in and stretch my body down, asking...
You’re not wrong

You’re not wrong

Buddy freezes, his generously sized ears straining towards the line of Canadian geese, strut-waddling just outside the back arena fence; the scary side, with tiny fox prints in the screenings each morning.  It doesn’t matter that we’ve had Canadian geese at the...