She Stood on Hoofs
It was fate that she be brought there,
to the arms of saddleless cowboys.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Destined to kick the dryness of buried wheat,
not synthetic sand.
To bite an older gentlemen\u2019s orange when he looked away,
not jockeyed to the disappointment of stables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She felt small
and rejected, when hands quivered to touch her mane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her nostrils spouted with ease and spoke of disapproval<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swiftness was not of her concern<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She moved close and far with a stumbling grace that frightened even herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trotted when trotting was needed
Tousled her tangles
Tripped over tumbleweeds<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rejoiced she wasn\u2019t choked by a muzzle
And owned by a bill
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the reality
of still being owned,
sweat through her coat on the coldest days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her eyes whispered defeat while she danced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She stood on hoofs that weren\u2019t meant to bear the despair of being liberated.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jocelyn Hernandez grew up in northern California. To her traditional Mexican parent’s disappointment, she moved 2 hours away to San Francisco where she spends the weekdays doing tech marketing in the nonprofit space.<\/em>
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