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The Master is Always Near

   




this pool of botflies
would they eat

submerged in the skin of this dying
creature, while afternoon slips

yet this horse buys time with
its beauty, its open eyes

a heart pounding through leather
fur, large movements inspiring attention

glass-white body of the Palomino
through which past grasses and trees

assume the foreground
his leg bent as a branch

mystery of sensation, inside the flesh more
of the flesh inside, no

mystery of god, who could prevent
what happens to anyone

a future I dreamed
wearing itself out finally

a sensation of nothing
in the skin of all creatures

in history, every I is a fly
I could feel that you knew how I felt

Samira Abed is a poet from California. She is Palestinian-American and committed to Palestinian liberation. You can read her work in the Dialogist, Noir Sauna, Fikra, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor, along with her friends, Hannah Piette and Scout Turkel, of Common Place, a journal of poetics.