Ride is 120 pages of Shakespearean sonnets that also features personal photos of the poet. The sonnets and the photos in this full-length collection explore the idea of the ride of life and sexuality through carousels, rocking and horses . These images represent the struggle of a womanchild to escape passivity in experiences with the world and find autonomy and pleasure as a submissive person. The sonnets are divided into sections titled filly, groom, breed, dressage, trot, stable, menagerie and pasture.
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An exceprt from the sonnet Rocking Horse below which describes the poet’s friendship with a photographer who never touched her but photographed her extensively. He was a man who made her feel objectified but also the most safe. She would sleep in his bed many nights after their photo sessions and felt in those moments what it would be like to have a father who made her feel safe in a place she never had before. He also had a rocking horse that she rode, and as the last line of this sonnet says, “and it is enough to just watch you ride.”
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