He saw the manes of horses
waves set in motion
when they broke into a gallop,
horses, sculls
to climb aboard
and row, the prairie
a grass river, a vast river
to oar, like plows oar
in the planting season.
Before he became
a rower, he saw become
what surrounded him
images of rowing in his imagination.
Before he rowed in the real,
he rowed in dream.
Philip Kuepper
(7 April 2016)