"She thinks of her two remaining horses and reminisces about their predecessors, especially the ???big-nosed roan gelding, calm as a president???s portrait,??? whom she ???let . . . go / to a neighbor I thought was a friend,??? who ???sold him down the river.??? Did Kumin sell the horse, give him away, or merely pasture him out on loan???she doesn???t say, but somehow she knows herself to be compli" . . . .