Pretend we’re brown horses
with white like this
on our noses. Pretend
the wind catches only just
our tails behind us. Pretend we’re sister
& brother & we
love one another, & for lunch
there’s grass & crackers
& in the field all the flowers—
red, yellow, & there are blue ones, too,
but don’t eat those! They’re poison.
Pretend we smell wolves.
Pretend we are wolves,
& when we howl
all the horses run, except the littlest one,
so we lick her on her white nose,
& we are all friends on a mountain
chewing flowers.
But then I die, & like this
with leaves & sticks you bury me, & you
are so, so sad, & so am I, & here come
the horses with their big hooves
to pound the dirt down (I have a house now
underground). Do you
miss me? Down here I get
so hungry. Pretend bring me
one more mouthful of flowers.