To mount a horse you clutch handfuls of mane. To mount you swing your leg. You yield to this chestnut mare. To find the center, look where you want the horse to go. You stay calm and she will be calm. To be calm you look down to your mother’s thinning hair. Her sing-song instructions […]
Nicole Brooks
Nicole Brooks is a writer and editor and works in university communications. She earned her MFA in poetry at Butler University, where she served as poetry editor of Booth. Nicole’s poems have appeared in West Trestle Review, Bracken, Anti-Heroin Chic, Barren Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, and more wonderful publications. She is a former newspaper reporter and ballet and modern dancer who has lived and studied in East Texas; Seattle; Chicagoland; and the Florida Panhandle. After a decade back home in Indiana, she recently moved with her family to Missouri. Please see nicolekbrooks.com for more.