Rodeo Ride
 
Ride your past.
Don’t let it ride you.
 
Life’s a rodeo:
Stay on that bull
long as you can,
 
and when you’re
thrown, get up
out of the dirt,
 
look for the clown.
 
And move.
 
Then ride again
soon as your bones
'll let you.
 
Bones matter but
bones ain’t heart.

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Tim Hunt’s collections include Voice to Voice in the Dark (Broadstone Books), Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award), and Fault Lines (The Backwaters Press).  Recognitions include The Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize.  Originally from the hill country of northern California, he and his wife Susan live in Normal, Illinois, which is not hill country.  https://www.tahunt.com/poetry/
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