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He was, as advertised, a good horse. We became like an old married couple— fat and sheeny at thirty, he could still buck me off. A vet said cancer, in November, before frozen ground and icy buckets, before a long night’s thrashing against barn boards when no help would come before dawn. He grazed the last sweet threads of pasture in a halter with his name in polished brass. Someone he didn’t know stroked his neck. Someone who knew what was coming inserted a needle. His legs folded, a wisp of grass between his lips. He was a good horse. It was the death he deserved. It is the death I deserve. I am telling anyone who will listen. I too have been good.
D M Gordon is an editor, poet, and novelist. Her prize-winning stories and poems have been published widely. The poetry collection, Nightly, At the Institute of the Possible, was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in fiction and two-time finalist in poetry. Upcoming publications include Loosestrife for Porcupines (Blue Light Press), and Gabriel (Sibylline Press), a novel about a lost boy among Salish Sea islands. See dmgordon.com.
