Home Burial by Michael McGriff

Author:Michael McGriff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

The cow noses through

the same weak spot in the same fence,

and every night finds herself

moving out beyond the field of her dumb,

sleeping sisters.

The cow in me has long admired

the story the night tells itself,

the one with rifle shots and laughter,

gravel roads crunching under pickups

with their engines and lights cut,

the story with the owls

diving through the circles

their iron silences

scratch into the air.

The cow in me never makes it past

the edge of the painting—

and she’s not up to her knees in mud,

she’s knee-deep in a cattle guard.

Bone and hoof and hoods of skin

dangle below the steel piping

into the clouds of the underworld.

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