Whew! Nothing like a little rabble rousing to invigorate our sleepy little readership. Today we go back to our regular programming.
Wouldn't it be fun if there was a way to have movie sound track run behind each blog post? Like yesterday, there could have been heavy, sinister music playing...so we would have known there was mischief afoot.
Today, there would be a lifting Irish lilt, joyous and uplifting, and tomorrow, well maybe a dirge, or a New Orleans style jazz band. Hmmmmm.
The Barb Wire
The Old Gray Mare
The sun came out today. It spilled warmth across the
snow still cast like a discarded bridal veil over the curves and
valleys of my farm. The icy crust softened, no longer knifelike on equine
legs. Its perfection begged to be broken.
I wasted no time on breeches, belt, or chaps. Old
sweatpants and two layers of fleece would do, a hat beneath my helmet,
gloves. Consolation wore only her Indian bosal, more halter than
bridle. Is there any way but bareback to ride o’er deep and drifted snow?
Consolation has never carried a rider in such
environs. The peculiar quiet, broken only by trains of geese that
clattered across the sky, made her jump at every turn. A flurry
of game birds set her heart to pounding beneath my knee. She snorted and
bounced, all wild eye and fun, until the knee-deep effort set her mind to task.
Her tension ebbed, and I rocked astride her like a boat at
anchor. Both hands on the reins, fingers extending lightly to
keep time with her bobbing head. Both heels pressed into
air beneath her ribs. Both scanning the snow for safest passage.
Both inhaling chill and passing warmth between us.
To ride bareback is to play in duet. It is
sex that happens because it is supposed to, not because someone planned
it. It is naked dressage, riding stripped to
essentials. Balance. Contact. Depth. Feel.
Dare I say Love?
No. For all the storybooks, the anecdotes, I
still cannot believe that horses love. Not in the way of dogs and
men. That which a horse offers, to one deserving, is a
finer treasure still: it is Trust.
Consolation has not been an easy horse. As recently as
last April, I remained unsure that I would keep her, after all. Our
relationship had been a struggle between wills, two alpha mares unwilling
to bow. And yet, today, we traveled with nothing between us, partners
adrift in an icy meadow crisscrossed with tracks of pheasant and quail,
of rabbits and dual coyotes that bounded after.
We will ride like this again, someday. Someday,
when she is thirty and I am fifty-four, Consolation and
I will chase another winter sunset, together, as far as we can
go.
I think this post's music would be something softer... bluesier... or maybe a cello, deep, intriguing...heartbreaking in its beauty.
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ReplyDeleteWhat an eloquent tribute to the joys of a good bareback ride. Very nicely done.
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