If I were making this into a short film or drawing illustrations to go along with it, there are many different visuals I would create. I would definitely start with a lot of horses running in fields, maybe loose at first. Then maybe some horses doing other things like eating, standing by a fence, something like that. As the poem goes on I would use images of creating the fence/pen for the horse, digging holes, putting posts up, images such as that.
Other ideas that go along with the poem would be the horse's foot hitting the ground, and at the end with this stanza:
"...a muzzle and two black eyes/looking the day away, a field empty/of everything but witchgrass, fluent trees,/and some piles of hay" (O'Rourke), I would try to get a close up of the eyes, then an image of a field, back to the eyes, hay, and then a wide shot/image of the field with the horse running again.
Hope that helps!
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