#Photography, Poetry

Manipulators

The Stallion is wild.

His Filly is gone

their black and white world,

gone gray.

The Filly is not coming back.

The Stallion

spits at the empty stall.

The Stallion

bucks

until his spirit

quashes its own refrain.

The Stallion cannot be alone.

The new Mare

trusts the Stallion

completely.

The Stallion relaxes for a bit.

Unworldly Mare

fooled into a golden stall,

try to remember your life outside

a healthy life, beyond Machiavellian black and blue.

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Cornelia DeDona

Author/Photographer, and native New Yorker, Cornelia is currently a Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women. Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii for thirty-six years. She makes her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. Her poems and photography are published in print, online and Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013). In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French." In October 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category. View all posts by Cornelia DeDona