Pegasus

By Anthony Cam       (a pseudonym, used to maintain sexual credibility)

I was senseless when she gentled me.

Between my teeth I took the bloodstained bit of love

And leaped, how high, heavenward to my top-heaviest rosiest  clouds

And still could not unseat

Her chaste knees and violent heels upon my ribs.

Up there I rolled on thunderheads,

Swam mackerel skies,

Scraped my sublime wings on mares' tails,

Tossed woolpacks

And the fresh unmolested fleeces of the blue,

Thrashed mist, scud, rack, nimbus and purrest sun,

0 how unpounce this hot virago from my back?

Then, if she will  ride me, I'll try earth and so destroy us both:

I dropped down heavens, down skies, down lower airs and spaces,

We crashed like dead monsters on that mountain top

And rolled together, maddened lovers on the slipping screes.

I sang in my nickering heart:

“I've killed the creature, I shall fly alone once more!"

I turned, reddened, bruised, my powerful right wing cracked,

My nostrils snorted to the smell of life:

She lay beside me, comfortable as swansdoun ease,

No bruise, no blood, no golden hair outraged,

Her rare virginity against my hide

(How white, how doubly white we were together) --

She put her resolute hand upon my royal neck

And smiled.

I scented death, sorrow, resurrection.

I hobbled to my scratched and trembling hooves

And let her slip the delicate bridle over me;

We stepped like children down that dangerous slope;

And how long we wandered in green pastures, who can say?

I know I healed, I grazed, she slept often in my sheltering shadow,

I carried her between my wings,

We found strange skies, her long-lost sisters --

She wanders with me yet.

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