George Messo
George Messo is a poet, translator and teacher. His four books of poems are published by Shearsman, UK. His translation of the Turkish poet Birhan Keskin, & Silk & Love & Flame, is part of the Arc Visible Poets Series. Messo lives on a remote forest farm in northern Sweden.
Horses in a Field
What are they doing
their unkeeled forms
like barges
inching through
a swollen current?
Always by the alders
but no one rides them.
Then there were no horses.
The alders had gone.
The field had gone.
The field had gone.
© 2019 George Messo