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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1 You walk out to the horses, pasture grass glazed, ice crunching underfoot, your arms loaded with hay. The horses, cold. Backs and manes draped in white lace, they quiver and murmur at a far corner beneath two elms...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere were two movies that summer about boys and their horses. In the first, we didn't cry when the horse was killed, but near the end. We didn't watch the second one. I cried all through the trailer, not knowing who...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 41)It was the first day of chill, the ashy sharpening that portends autumn, the day the horses returned. It had been raining finally for the last hours--the dark clouds caught high in the mountains, the mists lower, in the...
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From:Natural Resources Journal (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act is overdue for repeal or revision. The Wild Horse and Burro Program is expensive for taxpayers, detrimental to rangelands, and harmful to the thousands of free-roaming equines...
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From:Science (Vol. 291, Issue 5503) Peer-ReviewedFor several millennia, horses have been lending a hoof to humans. But despite extensive archaeological excavations, researchers have not been able to pin down the exact history of where and when these animals were...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI'm told the grass wicks up the limestone underneath the pastures, and that grazing it strengthens the bone. This is not found in Florida alone, of course, but in past years the density of horse farms has grown, as has...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOnce we stood beneath bare elm branches as drizzle fell; hair, slick and hugging skin, twitched like wind-teetered leaves. The wet crawled over us and seemed flies or gnats. The night just before ice, six sets of lights...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI took six horses to Texas, turned them loose in a pasture deep blue with coastal grass filled with wind that bent the reeds. I turned them from their trailer, and they ran as herd in a wide wave like geese that ride...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere's no right word for the color of the ashes , you said at the New Orleans hospice-- every week a new urn carried out & poured into the nameless garden. Maybe it's true. And maybe, just there through the fog, this...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen the children disembarked from the ferry and stepped as a group onto the sandy shore, no one wearing flip-flops, due to the cold, and the sea below as gray as the sea above, it was clear that the fog was unexpected,...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 4)Back then snow would erase all but gray roads shearing away at stippled fields. On cold days, the horses would stand all day near the south wall of the stable, their forelegs sheathed in mud. There was a walnut tree...
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From:Environmental Law (Vol. 35, Issue 4)Wild free-roaming homes and burros on public lands are deemed living symbols of the pioneer spirit of the West and considered a national aesthetic resource. At one time numbering in the millions, by the 1960s, the horse...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 46)In the underbelly of a limestone cliff between the Cévennes & the Rhône four horses gallop where time is tout d'un coup. Their manes move over jagged rocks that jut or, where water touched, round. There the shaman's...
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From:Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedfrom Little Yellow Horses, 1912, Franz Marc [HORSE] While we drink, the brown-robed monk sits cross-legged at the tent's opening. His head is bowed and he holds a thin reed in one hand and a scroll of white tree bark in...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI was afraid of my father. Each night, he came home from work, set a Piels on the desk, and paid bills as the dog slept under his feet. My father--who never hit me, nor ever raised his voice to me more than once or...
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From:Veterinary World (Vol. 6, Issue 9)Aim: To isolate aerobic bacterial micro flora residing in the upper respiratory tract of equines used by the pilgrims and tourists in Jammu & Kashmir. Materials and Methods: 88 apparently healthy equines and 53...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 74, Issue 283) Peer-ReviewedThe symbolism of the horse in Eneolithic society is explored in this paper. Recent excavations in the Eurasian steppes demonstrate the importance of horses before domestication and horse riding became common; showing...
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From:Science (Vol. 291, Issue 5503) Peer-ReviewedDomestication entails control of wild species and is generally regarded as a complex process confined to a restricted area and culture. Previous DNA sequence analyses of several domestic species have suggested only a...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThen she realized all the horses in the stars: the winged horse, the centaur, the unicorn, faint constellations with nebulas and light echo. Put together, they formed a horse of metal, white on blue lacquer with hooves...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntertaxonomic differences in skeletal element representation in archaeological faunas may reflect preferences in the procurement, processing, transport, and/or consumption of these species by prehistoric foragers....