After the Kalevala: "On the sand he saw the horse, the grass-mane among spruces." Canto 14

WOMEN LIKE HORSES

we are a group of many women
all naked
galloping up the stream bed
in the mud
in a herd
our breasts swinging
our hair flying
mud splashing
up over
our heels
wild and free
we are going to the end
where the stream meets the dam.
over the dam.
we laugh. we whinny.


© 1996 Jane Piirto

The Horse Fair By Rosa Bonheur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art