Username: nazivu
Name: Anjalika
(a Sanskrit name meaning 'a small mouse')Gender: Mare
Age: 2
Height: 13 hh
What is her favorite fruit?: Wild Blackberries
Why is it her favorite fruit?: Anjalika loves the simplisity of wondering around looking for these elusive bushes that contain her most loved thing - the sweet and bitter blackberries. If you've eaten a blackberry right off the bush, you'd know that they are slightly bitter but sweet, as I have done many times before (although there are many animals *coughalpacas* on my property that love them as well). But Anjalika doesn't stop at the berries, she also eats the leaves on the bush. Now, these leave have a few fine spikes on the underside, which makes even brushing them aside hard. But somehow Anjalika has pushed through that and loves eating these leaves when the berries are not yet ready.
Short poem about her favorite fruit:Blackberry Eating
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like strengths or squinched,
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry-eating in late September.
- Galway Kinnell