Robot
Down there the ochre horse with black mane, black fetlocks, black tail, was prancing as if to a fanfare of Charpentier, though it would have been the music of shinbone fife and a drum that tickled her ears across the tall grass and chestnut forests along the Vézère.
Coencas, tousled haired, naked, and yawning, held Robot in his arms, dodging with lifted chin his wet nose and generous tongue. The campfire under its spit of forked sticks, its ashes ringed by rocks, looked abandoned in the woodslight at morning. The crickets had begun again, and a single nightingale trilled through their wild chirr on the slopes beyond the trees.
–Guy Davenport
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