HAWAII FIVE OH
It was so damn beautiful
It could have been an
ad for anything
A young man and a beautiful
young woman, hair streaming
over soft well-tanned neck
gallop along a deserted
white-sand Oahu beach
They wouldn’t include
in the thirty second ad
how very hard the cowboy
from Canada is trying to
impress the Island maid
How many thousands of acres
How many broncs he has rode
How she had given him
the eighteen hand Hunter to ride
and how they had left the silly
English saddles behind
How good he feels about himself
as the sand kicks up from hooves
how pride goeth before a….
rogue wave crashing at their feet
And the big horse spooking
and the cowboy’s instincts doing
everything right, if he had been
neck-reining a quarter horse
and everything wrong on this one
Who goes left while he goes right
right out from under
With nothing but gravity
between him and
where his butt meets
the wet hard sand
The visible bruise
lasts a week or two
The therapy is taking
a little longer