Equus Resurrection

[ChristopherSea]

Todd, I can't seem to reconcile dispensing with the first stanza. I tried, but there would be no tie-in to the ending/punchline, there would be no establishment of it being a serious relationship, or as I mentioned above that she both intiated the relationship and ended it. Also, the horsetails were the whole stimulus for the resurection and the revelation in the close. Lastly, it would just begin with being critical of her and contradict why I would make me feel like the last of my own species in the end. I do think that I can incorporate stanza 2 into the third one and trim it a bit. I could also begin s1 with:

I recall her sun-sluiced silhouette
in dressage atop her chosen thoroughbred
as I navigated abrasive horsetails...