I’ve seen it a score of times, but it still mesmerizes me. Rocky pauses outside of the new barn, and he puts his nose down. Red sits down in front of the opening to the barn. Rocky comes up and puts his nose to Red, as if to locate him, and then Red moves forward, into the opening and Rocky comes up and noses him again, locates him, then carefully, with his head down, moves through the opening and into the stall. I don’t mean to suggest Red is being heroic, or that I even know what is happening – I don’t. It looks as if Red is guiding Rocky in, and that Rocky is using him as a guide.
14
September
Finding A Way In: Red And Rocky
by Jon Katz