“. . . when Alexander the Great met his favorite horse Bucephalus,
“The animal seemed ill-tempered and unmanageable and would not
suffer any of the King’s people either to mount or to speak to him,
but shied at everyone.”
But Alexander did not tame Bucephalus,
he saw the horse was spooked by his own shadow
which danced before him as he moved, sun at his back.
It was fear unnerved him Alexander discerned and
turned the horse to face the light head on, then
walked Bucephalus into its revelations,
his shadow behind and out of sight, but
ever following as shadows do, occluding
the work of mind; and so, Bucephalus was,
in this, as much human as equine.
Jim Culleny
© 1/15/23
Blink
…either way in a blink, in a blink we drink it up / Poems by Jim Culleny
Blink 