sense of horse

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

"  . . . I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses.  
I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness.  I believed
that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and
energy to theirs enhanced my vision.  Made of me a seer.  I believed them
to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God. . .
.  
. . . .  I am a boy no longer.  I am a man now who works away from horses,
who lives in a common blindness, seeing with his eyes only.  But a man with
a remembered glimpse of sightedness.  And it is horses that I have to
thank."

from Mark Spragg's essay, "A Sense of Horse"