Notes on Horses

So it is with Horse: Consumed for eons during the late paleolithic period, as we started to tame the wild horses we slowly stopped eating them.

Lead you back into yr table

Napoleon’s army, hungry, and advised to do so by the Surgeon in Chief, began cooking the meat of slain war horses in the breastplates of their armor using gunpowder as seasoning.

Killer buyer

http://web.vet.cornell.edu/public/oed/horsedissection/Search.asp?Fun=SBM

Art out of leisure time

The Universe as a Sacrificial Horse

It might have been easier to ride but
here she is, bellied up. Dumb, pregnant thing
and hollow still
- What a hard thing it is to kill! Where is you, heart?
The hardest part is bone, and starting.

A mare will kick if you surprise it from the back,
so we told her we were coming.

On your rear, we said.
We're behind! we said.
Then I ran from the front crying
No one's name and knocked her,
up on the head.