Aurora Magazine 2011

Riding andWriting Rosemary Nudd, SP 1969, Associate Professor of English

Riding

It has to do with bodies: humans’, horses’, heaven’s, earth’s— so freely fused in one embrace that space and grace unspeakable are told through muscled flesh and bone. It has to do with movement: power pulsing past containment, flight, delight, fluidity, unleashed, unlocked, and understood. It has to do with sharing: sweating, struggle, tension, triumph, carrying (and caring) creatures riding/rising into life. It has to do with bodies: laying claim to life forever, willing flesh-made-word to stay, to say the solidness of love. It has to do with movement: rhythm racing towards completion, reining flying fluency to manage meaning’s heavy load. It has to do with sharing: hopes to coax collaboration; stories strong as steeds to carry writers/riders into life. Writing

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