New cow poetry

Two cow poems—midwife and Pieces—available now from Rumen

It’s been a while since Finishing Line Press published my first chapbook, Cow Poetry and other notes from the field. Cows have been much on my mind (and in my work life) of late (due to a major plot twist, spillover of bird flu into bovines…more on that this summer).

Here are a couple of new cow poems, aptly published in The Rumen: midwife and Pieces.

ps: To celebrate the journal, here are a few lines about that amazing organ–the rumen–from “Someone took a cow,” originally published in Barrow Street over a decade ago and reprinted in Cow Poetry.

” …I can slip

my twice-gloved hand inside her,

touch the warm pulsations of the muscle,

rumen, that is the first of four stomachs.”