Assateague Quotes

“Today, everyone has come to see the horses, who have been here
for four hundred years. In myth, they descend from a herd
brought on a Spanish galleon & swim ashore to their astonishing
freedom after the ship hits a sandbar in a storm & goes down.
America, this is a scene you have seen before: a dark hull of flesh.
Or they are the descendants of horses set out by farmers to graze
& inexplicably forgotten. You are an assemblage. Natural.
Unnatural. So little of you is not from somewhere else.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems