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Equestrienne
    by Lola Huston    author info

I didn't know what her thighs were for
until I looked at the shirt on her chest.
There was printed on it a horsehead,
tasteful, which explained a lot, such as:
patrician cheekbones
and her great healthy height, but especially
a pair of thighs like cannons.
So that's what she does with them:
she holds onto horses.
She turned the other way in tiny shorts
and showed a pair of mathematically perfect spheres
over long long legs made to grip:
two upside-down exclamation points, wow and wow.

Lola Huston was the very first in line at the Wire show at Chicago's Metro on May 10, 2000 and would have scored front row center balcony except that Metro staff stopped her and made her check her bag in. She enjoys foreign languages, history, The New York Times, and good writing of all genres. A book of her poetry, The Memory of the Snake, is available on Fengi Press. She now teaches English in Japan.

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