It's Saratoga Racing season, and Andrew and Amy are at the track. This blogpost begins a series including photos of Sunday's Race 2 winner, Erin Enchanted, and some background about her. Read and see more about Saratoga this week at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Determination
Maybe it is easier
to pick a number
or a name --
in the pricking heat
my eyes pore over
your rippled mercury flank,
your memory bank of journeys won
their critical pass and distance story --
I can nearly feel the bones
disseminate through their
launching points,
far off at the imminent gate:
will you make six furlongs
at the front?
can breeding and feed
charge your reckoned heart
to will the unwieldy encumbrance
over the line
just one more time
to glory?
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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