“I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let’s be honest, I like that they’re ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood. Don’t you want to believe it? Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see the huge beating genius machine that thinks, no, it knows, it’s going to come in first.” PoetryWinningWomenPowerVictoryPoemHorsesSwaggerLadiesFirst Place Book:Bright Dead Things Source: Bright Dead Things
“Number two becoming number one, that's how life goes. Always demanding the best, that's a strange way of living.” CompetitionSecond PlaceFirst Place Book:Evil and the Mask Source: Evil and the Mask