This is the animal that never was.
Not knowing that, they loved it anyway:
its bearing, its stride, its high, clear whinny—
right down to the still light of its gaze…
—Don Paterson, “Unicorn”
after Rilke’s “Die Sonette an Orpheus”
Published in POETRY (June/July 2004)
Today, 9 April, is #NationalUnicornDay
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=184&issue=3&page=73