horsetouching
Published by Running Dog Press in 1998

This book is about me finally finding, and marrying, Kathy McCarty, a wild horse, She Likes To Read, walking awkwardly around Austin, Texas, guitar in hand. Tumbling from the Mountains.

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it looks like

the scratch on my arm

will be healed and gone

before you get back

from austin


I had hopes of you

seeing it

and it confirming for you

the idea

that you are married

to a man that

lives his life in such a way

as to get scratched up

sometimes



I was going to act

as if

I didn't know it was there

and didn't care about it

at all