Fading Forest Fables – Chapter 1 – Horses

Fading Forest Fables
Short stories for other people’s children.
Chapter 1 – Horses
Fox found it, but Bear loved it best. Crooked and half submerged in a lagoon, where saltwater ate ancient trees and rusted iron girders. Fox named them “merry-go-round-horses” and said long ago they danced, and that children would ride in circles upon them.
Bear liked children. [...]

draw the curtains
upon old strings
memory pays melody
in burnished coin
y entra la luz
draw the breath
between strangers
the weathered road
flickers in recognition
que todo lo quema

the sun sinks through grey skies into a grey sea
lights glisten from the boats in the harbour
and these towers of glass