Freewrite inspired by I am the Horse by Ellen Welcker
Horse tries to take up tap dancing.
The teacher makes Horse repeat the beginner steps again and again in front of everyone. Even the dust motes stop floating to watch her lurch across the community school stage.
F-lap f-lap f-lap
the other students tap, feet as light as fairy wings.
Drag - thud - ugh, drag - thud -
goes Horse.
Horse wants hay
Horse wants carrot and apple slaw
Horse wants to nuzzle a palm
Horse wants to be rubbed down
Horse wants to gallop over a field of violets
Horse wants to cantor up a dry road and make clouds of dust
shaped like bunnies and frogs
Horse heads home and hears her hooves make the pretty music of raindrops on all the rocks along the river.
