An Inscrutable Moment

via Daily Prompt: Inscrutable

Your name is Anzac.

Your eyes are liquid.  I swim in them finding new depths each day.

While the young, muscled farrier worked, your gentle gaze I sought discreetly.

You were one of many horses, and yet, you were the only one.

I saw myself in your amber eyes.  The way you saw me.

In that inscrutable moment,

How did you know?

I had never touched a horse

until you touched me.

a dawn bird