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Heat

BY JANE H IR SH FIE LD

My mare, when she was in heat,


would travel the fenceline for hours,
wearing the impatience
in her feet into the ground.

Not a stallion for miles, I’d assure her,


give it up.

She’d widen her nostrils,


sieve the wind for news, be moving again,
her underbelly darkening...

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