<\/p>\n

5:00 A.M. Central Daylight<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nebraska has a bakery for early souls.<\/p>\n

The passenger tweaked on Eastern time<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

will find brown succor in the paper cup<\/p>\n

that speeds him on a straight line Omaha<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to Lincoln. Watch the cedars rise beyond<\/p>\n

the shining Zephyr and stretch into a red<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

horizon. Pray and chant in white. This day\u2019s<\/p>\n

morning is to stay or go. O, all aboard!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

* \u00a0* \u00a0*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Owensboro<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two horses in a field at night.<\/p>\n

I am riding you into the moon.<\/p>\n

You tremble under me as I tongue<\/p>\n

your ear. You worship my name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My father whipped me into a<\/p>\n

saddle, taught me how to do this.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The day comes when you throw me.<\/p>\n

When I curse you in jodhpurs<\/p>\n

and leave red welts on your body.<\/p>\n

The metal rod the doctors used<\/p>\n

to push your sternum out is where<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tie the reins to tame you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For now, let us lie among the tufts<\/p>\n

of peonies on this hard ground. Let me<\/p>\n

forget my father, gazing away as he rode<\/p>\n

his horse beside me. Listen, love, to the<\/p>\n

dark gallop of my heart and the sound of cars<\/p>\n

hitting rumble strips in the Kentucky night.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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