Horse whisperer

Dave BontaContemplative

A horse in a bad mood is a hard horse, a high horse— simple fury without much mind. I sat with him a good while, talking home and bed.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 18 April 1661.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
home, horse, bed, fury

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