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Apparition Snow

That night of apparition snowbecame horses thundering throughheadlights spread beams splaying light bladesuntil they appeared hurdling the roadfull run, over and over again, in some portalskipping time back to range unbrokenunfenced. From backroads clear to Laramie,or was it Cheyenne … You called, unableto get a bus because blizzard, broke,busted, befuddled. Left me nothingto do but load up head out to bringyou back home. Almost made it before apparition snow broke out into horses, unbroken, unbridled, unreal, yet true, filled the world in headlights while dark matter took the rest.

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