To a Wild Foal 

Government contractors were promised three hundred a head
for every horse removed from the range. Extreme measures
were taken to hide all activity; police hired, gates installed.
Helicopters took to the air and stampeded bands of wild horses
through the desert. Newborn foals who couldn’t keep up
were bound with rope to be picked up later, for three hundred a head.

sore June sky—
spider woven silk
dapples your slight mane