Trim my hooves

Trim my hooves!
I am thirsty for experience.

The glass man
on the glass river says
If only I could get
down it alone      --But
you are getting down it alone...

Thirsty! I drink
from my own well
the red and blue fire
around my head
this minute
vanishing         I
befriended with it

-- Jean Valentine
Door in the Mountain: New & Collected Poems