When the carriage stops
you get off and shake out your dress
it has been a long time since you’ve seen the desert
but it is familiar, with pink sand
and white haze
and you think, yes, this is what I was looking for
the Ox
who stood there
five years ago
stands there still
his dark eye knows nothing
but he is alive
in the heat
in this far place you thought you’d never return to
and he looks at you as if you never had left
as if you never would leave
and you turn
the carriage is gone.
-Nina Alvarez
Poem of the Month 
I would LOVE for u to check out my “Creative Playground” tab on my blog and click on my site “Social Muze”! It’s a little site I put together for my blog and AllPoetry dot com friends to talk about and share art, photography, poetry etc… 🙂 I would love for you to be a part of it! Maybe host a workshop/group for us??? 🙂 At least take a peak 🙂 I will def be back!!! 🙂
Kellie
P.S. actually we have a poetry critique group (where people enter their poems for critiques) and our host for that group has disappeared 😦 I am looking to fill it with someone who knows poetry and can give constructive criticism. Interested? Or maybe know someone who might do it for us? We have poems waiting 😦
Thanks, Kellie! I will check it out.
I would be happy to. I do this sort of thing all the time. Can you email me and tell me more about it? ninaealvarez@gmail.com
Romantic, unexpected, and really nice…. is the image of the ox related to the Oxherding Pictures?
Wow, Molly – it wasn’t, but maybe in a subconscious way. Here, for people who don’t know the Oxherding pictures.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/oxherd.htm