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Two Poems
by Amy Newlove Schroeder


The Clown & the Frog See Everything

striped hat

was that an object from your life?

your life which felt dirempt from objects

the juggler, the fire-eater
the sword-swallower

the trapeze artist befriending the air

you’ve seen them
moving like insects in the circle of light, performers

hard work in the mouth of the

your granular existence, your circus tent

your new hat


Bride Saddle with Stirrups

Galloping into the
noose wind, under the hole-gathered sky

I hold nothing but the mane

At bird-light we travel, my horse & I
cropping grass, drinking from streams

Sometimes I run beside her
one hand on her smooth flank

Her eyes: brown globes on no axis

I was reared on mare’s milk

Thick fermented cloud
that boiled my stomach

My taut skin, mare’s skin

Roaming heart & ashes