Poems by Gigi Marks
Archives: by Issue | by Author Name
White Mare
by Gigi Marks
Gigi lives with her four children and partner on a small farm in the Finger Lakes, in Gayogoho:no—the lands of the Cayuga people.
This one is small, nine hands and no more,
with one black foot and three other white,
and when she runs high stepping in the deep
snow, it flies upward around like the ocean
waves in summer, like clouds quickly dispersing,
or just like more snow falling heavy,
and it will—filling in hoofprints, piling high
as the small white mare going back in the barn.
© Gigi Marks