Dumb me.

"A deserted horse..." novels could be written based on those three words. And the subject reminds me of Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's war horse, who was said to be frightened of his own shadow.

Thanks for sharing some history. Gives me a reason to look into Bucephalus!

a challenge on a poetry site to make a poem using certain words. How the whole thing came about was kind of a sububconscious that pulled together in consciousness and the whole poem just wrote itself. Or something like that.