BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL

BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL

Once I entered a gymkhana race
where a dollar bill was firmly placed
between my thigh and my horse.
I was riding bareback, of course,
so it was a snap and every pace
that the judges put me through,

no matter how tough it got,
that dollar bill stuck to me like glue.

They begrudgingly gave me the blue,

but I would rather have won the pot.

11/4/21

Terri Glass workshop

FIRST DRAFT

Once I entered a gymkhana race 

where a dollar bill was placed 

between my knee and my horse

I was riding bareback, sans pad,

so it was a snap and every pace 

that the judges put me through 

that dollar bill stuck to me like glue.

Other horsey bits
Becky Dart: Born to Run

Connemara pony origins

Kiger mustangs carry rare Iberian Sorraia mtDNA

The jockey's baton
B/G Sandwich Shops plate, or the tale of Ralph Moody
Eating the Wind
Helgar the Horrible

Letter to Sigrun in Iceland (Helgar the Horrible)
Mexico Journal: Aug. 19, San Juan Chamula on horseback
The Little Shits
Shetlandish Escape Artists
Shetland foal, H.M.S. Salt
Horse Chestnuts
Horses in Heaven
Sitting Deep

While Reading Essays by Robert Hass
There is so Much We Save from Childhood

• BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL

FIRST SWIM
NEW MOWN HAY, 

RAISED BY HORSES, 

ODE TO STEPHANIE,...
AFTER THE SOLSTICE, MACHU PICCHU
STOLEN RIDE
WILD HORSES IN THE RAIN

LATE HOUSEWARMING POEM TO WM.T.WILEY
HORSES RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS OF ZENIA AT NIGHT