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The patient need

Updated: Nov 10, 2022

The patient need waits


with bare feet and shod soul


for the space between

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A commune of cows distinguished by blotches of black and brown over a wide eye, a warm rump   all eat the same grass are constrained by the same wire fence share the same old bull.

 
 
 
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When they ask why you don’t eat meat tell a conspiracy tale about little boy cows being snatched from their mothers so we can enjoy veal with our milk.   Describe the smell of the rain-wet wool on you

 
 
 
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After making her coffee and lunch in the hospice kitchen, I find respite in my book of poems which can hold a hand, an eye, an ear, but...

 
 
 

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