The horses we now call the mustang—no relation to the cars my father & I would test drive but never find the money to buy—no longer need to trace their roots back to the original Spanish horses in order to be called mustangs.
Justin Carter
Justin Carter's poems appear in The Collagist, cream city review, The Journal, Redivider, and Sonora Review, who awarded him their 2014 Poetry Prize. He lives in Denton, TX.