Lastword: Perspectives

Marion Kaselle
Posted 8/21/12

The horses stand at the gate.

“Where have you been?” ask their eyes and ears.

“I’ve been writing.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s my art of arranging words — the sounds …

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The horses stand at the gate.

“Where have you been?” ask their eyes and ears.

“I’ve been writing.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s my art of arranging words — the sounds you hear me think to express the ramblings of my mind — so many other humans may know them.”

“Primitive!” they say with a twist of lips and narrowed eyes.

“Humans aren’t horses,” I remind. “We’re a relatively new species, still trying to figure things out.”

The thought “too much figuring” takes form within, as I catch my mare’s mischievous grin and glint of eye.

[From the book “Touching Horses: Communication, Health and Healing through Acupressure,” by Marion Kaselle, J.A. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1995.]

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