iPoems

Jenny George is the winner of a Discovery Poetry Prize and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Santa Fe, where she helps run a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice.

A Childhood

An iPoem

by Jenny George

The horse had been beaten and flies
crawled excited on the beat marks.
He held still in the sunblazed pasture.
For some minutes I stood at the wire fence.

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