It may be that you misread her symbolism. Isn't
she writing about getting it on with her horse?
One could ask as well whether it was as good for
the horse as it apparently was for her. The
horse, probably, would be too polite to answer.
Mark the Neigh-Sayer
At 01:09 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:
>Poetry Daily: Sue Sinclair, "Surrender"I just
>had to share this - today's offering from
>www.poems.com. I was so overcome that I wrote
>the following pointless note to the editors:
>I just want to say how much I enjoyed Sue
>Sinclair's poem "Surrender." It is a superb,
>even an archetypical, example of The Mainstream
>Poem. It has Light - twice - and the Heart, and
>Love, and Your Own Wants, and the Real, and
>even, for no extra cost, the Self! And a very
>sweet metaphoric Horsey, which must appeal to
>the pubescent girl in all of us. Looking at
>"Surrender," any poet burdened with an excess of
>testosterone or originality can only ask: How
>can I compete with work of this caliber?
>
>
>
> Surrender
>
>
> Sometimes the light, a horse,
> gallops into the room
> and demands you surrender.
> It paws the floor, snorts-
> and so you rise out of the low-lying
> cloud of the self, the half-dreaming
> wakefulness we call love,
> and into the cool air of the real.
>
> It shakes its mane impatiently,
> rears and kicks, its beautiful body
> demanding your attention,
> pushing its way in. Not
> that you're afraid, not exactly.
> But it shines straight into your eyes.
> And though the heart is small
> and cramped, barely large enough to suit
> your own wants, you retreat into a corner,
> make do with less. The only
> possibility when the world lifts its head
> and light pours from its back
> in quantities enough to drown you.
>
>
> Sue Sinclair
> The Malahat Review
> Winter 2006
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