Auteur d'un unique livre, intitulé "Beginning"(début) Horan est cité dans l'anthologie d'Auden sur les jeunes poètes américains, après quoi il semble disparaître de l'histoire de la littérature. Ses textes sont difficiles à trouver. En voici un, en anglais
SONNET
Announced to me by trumpets and by tears,
by tempests in the silk, by paper wars,
how calendars of death in distant years
will well up in our eyes and wall our stars.
In ferns and forests, as the ghost appears
wrapped in his flags or swinging from his shores,
muffled with careful cloth, we stop our ears,
sing in our sleep to silence all his sores.
Pinned to our wrists, like butterflies to glass,
the alphabets of age, the wheels of grief.
A grain of salt, a nail, a lip, a leaf
reminds us that they melt and move through grass.
Announced to me by all they left to keep,
how soon they shall assassinate my sleep.