E. J. Evans
Mist, Then Horses
Who can say how far one's life extends?
My sister loved horses with a love
that took her far. She always wanted
to visit Iceland because she'd heard
about the horses there, but she never made it.
But once when I was there, traveling through
the Öxnadalur Valley in dense fog, I saw horses emerge
from the gray mist as I passed through.
First nothing but mist, then horses.
And because horses are friends to spirits, I asked them,
do you know my sister? Do you know Jan?
Bio
E. J. Evans is the author of Ghost Houses (Clare Songbirds, 2021), Conversations With the Horizon (Box Turtle Press, 2019), and the chapbook First Snow Coming (Kattywompus Press, 2015).