Blue Arab

The small blue Arab stallion dances on the hill

like a glancing breaker, like a storm rearing in the sky,

In his prick-ears,the wind, that wanderer and spy,

sings of the dunes of Arabia, lion-coloured still.

The small blue stallion poses like a centaur-god,

netting the sun in his sea-spray mane, forgetting

his stalwart mares for a phantom galloping unshod;

changing for a heat-mirage his tall and velvet hill.