An extra poem this week

I know I posted this week poem yesterday, and knowing that I will be traveling next week, I thought I would post another one today! so here’s a lovely, simple poem that I read:

In Envy of Cows

by Joseph Auslander

The cow swings her head in a deep drowsy half-circle to and over Flank and shoulder, lunging At flies; then fragrantly plunging Down at the web-washed grass and the golden clover, Wrenching sideways to get the full tingle; with one warm nudge, One somnolent wide smudge Sacred to kine, Crushing a murmurous of late lush August to wine!   The sky is even water-tone behind suave poplar trees— Color of glass; the cows Occasionally arouse That color, disturb the pellucid cool poplar frieze With beauty of motion slow and succinct like some grave privilege Fulfilled. They taste the edge Of August, they need No more: they have rose vapors, flushed silence, pulpy milkweed.