Has anyone here seen a horse being born?
A few of you.
OK.
It's a pretty bizarre thing because a horse just
comes out of a horse.
[LAUGHTER]
So you just need to know that.
[LAUGHTER]
What I didn't know before was how horses simply
give birth to other horses.
Not a baby by any means, not a creature of liminal spaces,
but a four legged beast hell bent on walking,
scrambling after the mother.
A horse gives way to another horse.
And then, suddenly there are two horses.
Just like that.
That's how I loved you.
You, off the long train from Red Bank,
carrying a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two computers
swinging it unwieldy at your side.
I remember we broke into laughter
when we saw each other.
What was between us wasn't a fragile thing
to be coddled, cooed over.
It came out fully formed, ready to run.