Improv week 6

The Rescue
Robert Creeley

The man sits in a timelessness
with the horse under him in time
to a movement of legs and hooves
upon a timeless sand.

Distance comes in from the foreground
present in the picture as time
he reads outward from
and comes from that beginning.

A wind blows in
and out and all about the man
as the horse ran
and runs to come in time.

A house is burning in the sand.
A man and horse are burning.
The wind is burning.
They are running to arrive.

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A dog ambles in a uselessness
with a boy guiding him in an operation
to a moment of both paws and feet
above the useless pavement.

A time bursts in from stage left
harboring this newly formed picture
as the dog looks to his right
four ideas in his head.

A stormcloud forms above
and inside the body of the boy
the dog barks twice
finally understanding.

A window is broken.
The dog and his boy are running.
The storm is forming.
The boy's father drinks a coke somewhere.