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  • T Paulo Urcanse Prize For Literary Excellence
  • A poem by Stephen Guy Mallett


    Head and Halo, Otto Piene, 1975

    The Dandelions at Goloring Ditch 



    They’re quick-witted, iff haptic
    aptitude is the term for that
    mantic faculty where ru-

    minants leave the taproot intact
    during the dog days. It is
    when the summers snow. And what fair

    dehiscence, the suer to which
    the facile is apropos. Made
    more fissile than shoulders of

    the Muliphein is to any
    surface where the hollow re-
    joins the main thrust. The fourfaced wind

    races over the lesser
    cursus—the Gaussian curve at
    −1. Early lung

    ching, yellow-green
    where once there was
    none. The thing I feared would

    happen happened. We take this head-
    on. Quickleather, woodknock, birch-
    tusk; willowswept over the jewel.

    All that is is dwindling.
    We know this on an intuit-
    ive level. We value con-

    sistent rhythm for the fugue it
    can introduce. The mane some
    how moults, somewhen is made to be

    diffusive—I meant diffuse—
    and the spirits thereby released
    from the weight of being beasts.

    S.G. Mallett is online at dowsing.neocities.org

    March 7, 2026
    art, high horse magazine, Literature, new-poetry, poem, Poems, prose, reading, Writing

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