The horses of Gaza—the stallions, colts, mares the donkeys too—and mules, and jennies who once tugged the people on their carts, across the streets and intersections for twenty centuries and maybe thirty, now they scramble, the neighs, the braying, the gallop in drummed dune-sand, where hooves print crescent moons with horseshoes that endure the bombings … Continue reading Political Poem: THE PEGASUS RANCH, by Arturo Desimone