Selima Hill "Cow"
Published by Sarah Uzunlar ProMosaik Poetry Cow -Selima Hill I want to be a cow and not my mother’s daughter. I want to be a cow and not in love with you. I want to feel free to feel calm. I want to be a cow who never knows the kind of love you ‘fall in love with’ with; a queenly cow, with hips as big and sound as a department store, a cow the farmer milks on bended knee, who when she dies will feel dawn bending over her like lawn to wet her lips. I want to be a cow, nothing fancy – a cargo of grass, a hammock of soupy milk whose floating and rocking and dribbling’s undisturbed by the echo of hooves to the city; of crunching boots; of suspicious-looking trailers parked on verges; of unscrupulous restaurant-owners who stumble, pink-eyed, from stale beds into a world of lobsters and warm telephones; of streamlined Japanese freighters ironing the night, heavy with sweet desire like bowls of jam. The Tibetans have 85 words for states of consciousness. This dozy cow I want...