{"id":2231,"date":"2014-05-02T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:49:08","slug":"atokad-park-1983-by-jeff-streeby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/atokad-park-1983-by-jeff-streeby\/","title":{"rendered":"Atokad Park: 1983 by Jeff Streeby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atokad Park: 1983<\/h2>\n

by Jeff Streeby<\/p>\n

We had twenty-three horses in training. Two were from the same farm. They could have been twins\u2014 both tall and gracile, both bright bays, both with a little strip and a snip, both with a wide flash of white at the right front coronet\u2014except one was a four-year-old filly, flighty but gentle, and one was a rank and deadly savage\u2014 a two-year-old horse colt. They were stalled across the alley from each other. One night after I went home, John swapped them out \u201cto see if I was really paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Spring afternoon\u2014<\/p>\n

six black swans on the temple pond<\/p>\n

elpmet
\nxis kcalb snaws<\/p>\n

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\nJeff Streeby earned his MFA in Poetry from Gerald Stern\u2019s program at New England College in New Hampshire. His poetry has appeared in Ginosko, Southwest American Literature, Los Angeles Review, Rattle, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, and many others. His poem \u201cBiography\u201d won the 2013 Provincetown OuterMost Community Radio Poetry Award. He is a Senior Lecturer in English and History at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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