A Poem from OF COWS AND CROWS manuscript (currently in review with a publisher)

THE GRASS IS GREENER (first published in The Talking Stick)

cows lowered heads

between bottom strands

of barbed wire

bent front legs

to kneel in prayer

to the god of the other

side of the fence

their tongues stretched 

and curled toward the grace

of green tendrils

as if they could be saved

by such decadence