REGIONAL REPORT
SPOKANE ARTS
FOR THE LOOFF CARROUSEL
written for the reopening of the Looff Carrousel
May 13, 2018 by Mark L Anderson,
2018 Spokane Poet Laureate
The carrousel horses believe
whoever grasps their reins
will forever remain airborne,
never aging. They know
life repeats, not a river, a ring
as they go round and around,
heaving themselves at the sky,
working so hard for us.
Their prayer: that the finish line’s
flourish remains forever beyond
their bit, an elusive lap away.
They harrumph wildly to the pipe
organ’s howl, juggling jolly hurrahs
as the music whirs by like
the shimmer of a brass ring. Find it
and the next ride is on me. These
fortunate horses pay no heed
to the lapsed laws of physics
governing their flight, as pink
cotton candy dissolves like laughter
on a child’s tongue. One moment
it fills the belly, the next it’s gone.
Please don’t feed them the facts of life.
These brave beasts know nothing
of gravity, the conservation
of angular momentum, or the gears
and levers propelling their own, better
version of motion, where a black horse
may leap into the air. And if you believe,
if you really believe, he may not
have to come back down.
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