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Preface; when a leggy foal comes into the world; on a night herons were divingthru the waves of night, march 30th, 1970; on that night was somethingroyal; those who eased secretariat from somethingroyal; scrambling and scampering, leaping and jogging; after a week or two; bigger than most foals; "a bruiser," some; as the days get longer; he was different; mothers buck and yowl for their stolen jewels; before he'd gulped his crushed oats; now he can't smell her, feel her; into the night like the other weanlings; weaning day, the babies; like the otherjust weaned foals |
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A different morning smellfeeling touch as a song they can dance to; it was always one move at a time; glittering; what the horse must feel; colts chasing each other in the field; later in the soft sand; the gorgeous red chestnut growing into what was to come; when you see a horse glistening in the morning light; his nostrils, soft as violets; before the trip southin the still black early morning, only the slight light; bringing secretariat to florida; after the last ice slidesfrom the leaves; inside the barn; "he's a nice colt and he's just a baby, you take care of him." |
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Almost too beautiful some said"i have to get the fat off him first, i have to teach him to run. he's big, awkward and doesn't know what to do with himself"; night blues, secretariat waiting; a horse that sleepsmostly standing up; too plump and pretty; a chubby clown leaves as a prince; april 1, 1972; secretariat was wild; his first race; days after aqueduct; "secretariat can run fast and far. i think he'll go down in history as another man o' war''; horse heaven; under the rippling jade of elms; opening day, saratoga; he just floats; the hopeful; saratoga, dark day at the track |
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Hanging back, as if gathering himselfthat august; leaving saratoga, as horses load into the vans; he wasn't like the dark beauty; years laterwill secretariat remember; saratoga photograph; past the gingerbread house, guitar moan from café lena on phila; like something out of a fairy tale; his personality reached out; on the night before any races; drawing the place for the post; ron turcotte; the derby; derby day; like flowers put in cool; after a clear start; after the race; other horses saw a shadow coming from behind and knew it wasn't their shadow; before the preakness |
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"He looks like a rolls roycein a field of volkswagons"coming from the place; "you know (he) sorta like an airplanejus' put it on the runway-when you wantsand take off woosh"; thinking of secretariat after the preakness; after the preakness, thru dripping larch and maples heading out from stall 41; it's like he's not real; "you get some good hosses you can figure gonna"; "that's an awful lot of people standin' in that stall"; on the night before the belmont; gloomy and gray morning; just before the belmont; on the day of the race; hours before they announced; just before post time |
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""This full arc of life-bigger than imagination in a raging fire-is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight ... In Lifshin's language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on from poem to poem, joining Secretariat in triumph-'not for a win but a coronation.'"--Laura ChesterAS THE DAYS GET LONGERthe horse dreamsof flying in the airlike a gust of windon an abandonedChristmas tree, red exploding likea spurt of ligh |
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Secretariat (Horse), 1970-1989 -- Poetry
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Secretariat (Horse), 1970-1989 fast |
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Race horses -- Poetry
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Race horses
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Poetry
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1937875628 |
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9781937875626 |
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