Breaking up another run of Savvy Auntie articles with this poem I wrote. It was published in another college compilation called Word from the Herd: The Horse Course Roundup. I happen to like this poem far more than the fable I published in the other college compilation. A photograph I took was also featured in this compilation. It will also be featured below. I hope you enjoy it!

"Horse Rhythm"

by Veronica Spettmann

Thump: 
We blink. 
Thump-thump:
My racing heart.
I thump
your sides with my heels.
Thum-um-um-ump:
Speeding hooves on decaying leaves.
Thump...thump...thump...
as we slow to a silence in which you
hear the 
thump
of the pulse of history.
And I thump
your side with my hand in thanks for
the thump 
of natural rhythms.