npm2020: poetry videos day 16 "Stop for Horses on Bridge"

My National Poetry Month Project 2020 is to record a short video each day in April, presenting my published poems to poetry lovers of all ages.

Today's poem does not include white-tail deer like the Progressive Poem does, but it IS about horses.
If you faithfully expect something, does it come?

STOP FOR HORSES ON BRIDGE

I stopped for horses

on the bridge—

looked up and down the pebbled path

for steamy velvet muzzles,

listened for the clatter-clop

of horseshoes on the boards.

I stopped for horses

on the bridge—

waited for a whiff of hay and stable,

planned to lay my hand against

a rounded wall of horse.

I stopped for horses

on the bridge—

but horses never came.