<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Cows Lying Down</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A Holstein cow lying down—</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">it would seem impossible</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">for such an awkward shape to return to standing.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Yet, lifting part by part</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the unlabeled and milky charts of their being,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">they do.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">With two thumbtacks—one black, one white—</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I entrust this vision of unsupine cows to the future.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jane Hirshfield</span></div></body></html>