AUTUMN RHYTHM
Jackson Pollock, 1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
unbidden the horse
bolts from its stable
freed at last from the
apocalyptic
quartet from oater
cliché red blazer
aristo in hot
pursuit of dream-fox
unbidden the horse
appears riderless
unslow without the
clomp of heavy hooves
comes as autumn wind
comes swirling umber
dirt leaves head aflame
like a wild white sun
unbidden unnamed
and untamable
Paul Genega’s latest collection of poetry is Sculling on the Lethe from Salmon Poetry in 2018. A chapbook of recent poems, Moordener Kill, is due out from Finishing Line Press in early 2020.