push | a poem in my pocket

cinquain in pain

10 Apr 2018 1 Comment

A cinquain is a five line poem with first line as title and final line restates it. Syllable count: 2-4-6-8-2.

calving

farmer midwife

gets up at night to check

first time heifers need help birthing

spring push

photo by lynn

24 Apr 2017 33 Comments

cow pushes

hard, long

granddaughters

come along

to witness birth of calf

girls interested in kittens

already few weeks old

realize something wrong

in birth canal – nose, one hoof

show but never second foot

leg bent unnaturally

cannot push out

(naturally)

must pull

stillborn

Unfortunately, this was our experience yesterday…linking quadrille to dVerse.