Pegasus

ruby red
mellow yellow
obnoxious orange
leaves crackle loudly underfoot
branches break
sticks splinter
bones
bleached with thirst
litter the darkening
decaying dirt
filling the space between the living
with carcasses of the deceased.
brilliant brunette bodies and tanning tangerine trunks
stripe themselves into a
brown sugar molasses for the
almost empty austere azure
infested with freshly spun
cotton candy clouds
that blush as the setting sun
blows kisses in the breeze.

muscles tense and twitch
enveloped
beneath silken sheets of white fur.
silver and gold strands weave wondrous stories
telling tall tales of
talking trees
winking wolverines
breathing books
elephants with torrential tributary tusks
sunflowers with palette-pleasing petals
stars that weep with wishes
dragons and dungeons and dwarves
oh my!
gaggles of gods and goddesses
gather every evening
dressed in mythological fables
fantasy epics and
phenomenal legends
just to hang around the horizon
for a chance at witnessing
the pinioned pony.

knobby knees and erratic ears
wobble every which way
to keep balance while
flighty feathers flick from dewy wing tips
emerald eyes graze across snowy flanks
shimmering in swallowed sunlight
reflecting rainbow rays
mirrors to a world accessible
only by children and the innocently ignorant.
lanky chalked limbs dipped into
inky diamond hooves
paw patiently
at the ebony earth
dancing dutifully for the dreamed-up deities
unintentionally unaware of
her.

she steps from her hiding place
among the silent stars
revealing a perfectly proportioned
arabian angel
complete with a glowing mane of flaxen hair
yet lacking the formula for physical flight.
wings spread wide
stretching
superseding the vacant evening ether
a satisfied whinny escapes
as her injured indigo irises pierce
his jaded spirit
stimulating both of their
slumbering souls in recognition

“I can love you
better
than anyone”
he smiles
and flutters a bit.


and he did.

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