We the Centaurs

Watch film footage of the ‘68ers
and see how young people are the foreparts
of their lives, as they demonstrate
in Paris, even as they dart

between baton charges and tear gas,
in small mobile groups like meerkats.
Imagine the centaur each of them has,
which then could be only guessed at,

and of which they had yet no idea.
We older folk are either dragged by a team
of horses, or know the centaur that clears
obstacles in a leap - the fiery stream !

Do you come quartered, does life in good trim
go in advance, are you the future, limbed ?

Woodford Halse - 5 May 2026