Descendant of Cortez’s sixteen,
half of the centaur, the god
that quaked the Aztec
to golden fissures.
By legend, the colt born
in crossing—neither Spanish
nor American—the white steed
of the prairies, disembarked
into iconic wild.
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Clarence Wolfshohl
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