In a blur, a blind of grass, the horse. Dunes. At your right, ocean collapsing on the edge of Virginia. The flea-bitten mare ahead, returning with her empty saddle. Here comes a horse: head bobbing, miff of sand from...
July 1964
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Cara Olexa
Cara Olexa earned her MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University. Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares and received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and Gulf Coast. Her poetry was a finalist for the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize. She's lived in Oregon, New Mexico, Tennessee, and twice in Illinois, but will always be from Ohio.