{"id":5468,"date":"2007-06-20T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2007-06-20T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:25:00","slug":"the-eye-of-a-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-eye-of-a-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye of a Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hereby nominate Bob Hicok<\/a> as the Poet Cowreate of the World. Check out his poem, “My new neighbour”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Looking at a cow one morning last month,
\nI wondered if the congregation of flies
\non the eye of the cow
\nstared at the eye of the cow
\nwith their compound eyes
\nand if I had ever seen this many eyes
\nin this small a space or had a thought
\nin which the word eye occurred so obsessively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full poem<\/a>—I especially like the way it ends, though not the fact that it ends. A poem about cows should go on forever, like the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Falstaff<\/a>. Previous posts on cows: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a>, 17<\/a>, 18<\/a>, 19<\/a>, 20<\/a>, 21<\/a>, 22<\/a>, 23<\/a>, 24<\/a>, 25<\/a>, 26<\/a>, 27<\/a>, 28<\/a>, 29<\/a>, 30<\/a>, 31<\/a> , 32<\/a>, 33<\/a>, 34<\/a>, 35<\/a>, 36<\/a>, 37<\/a>, 38<\/a>, 39<\/a>, 40<\/a>, 41<\/a>, 42<\/a>, 43<\/a>, 44<\/a>, 45<\/a>, 46<\/a>, 47<\/a>, 48<\/a>, 49<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 51<\/a>, 52<\/a>, 53<\/a>, 54<\/a>, 55<\/a>, 56<\/a>, 57<\/a>, 58<\/a>, 59<\/a>, 60<\/a>, 61<\/a>, 62<\/a>, 63<\/a>, 64<\/a>, 65<\/a>, 66<\/a>, 67<\/a>, 68<\/a>, 69<\/a>, 70<\/a>, 71<\/a>, 72<\/a>, 73<\/a>, 74<\/a>, 75<\/a>, 76<\/a>, 77<\/a>, 78<\/a>, 79<\/a>, 80<\/a>, 81<\/a>, 82<\/a>, 83<\/a>, 84<\/a>, 85<\/a>, 86<\/a>, 87<\/a>, 88<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 90<\/a>, 91<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hereby nominate Bob Hicok<\/a> as the Poet Cowreate of the World. Check out his poem, “My new neighbour”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Looking at a cow one morning last month,
\nI wondered if the congregation of flies
\non the eye of the cow
\nstared at the eye of the cow
\nwith their compound eyes
\nand if I had ever seen this many eyes
\nin this small a space or had a thought
\nin which the word eye occurred so obsessively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full poem<\/a>—I especially like the way it ends, though not the fact that it ends. A poem about cows should go on forever, like the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Falstaff<\/a>. Previous posts on cows: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a>, 17<\/a>, 18<\/a>, 19<\/a>, 20<\/a>, 21<\/a>, 22<\/a>, 23<\/a>, 24<\/a>, 25<\/a>, 26<\/a>, 27<\/a>, 28<\/a>, 29<\/a>, 30<\/a>, 31<\/a> , 32<\/a>, 33<\/a>, 34<\/a>, 35<\/a>, 36<\/a>, 37<\/a>, 38<\/a>, 39<\/a>, 40<\/a>, 41<\/a>, 42<\/a>, 43<\/a>, 44<\/a>, 45<\/a>, 46<\/a>, 47<\/a>, 48<\/a>, 49<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 51<\/a>, 52<\/a>, 53<\/a>, 54<\/a>, 55<\/a>, 56<\/a>, 57<\/a>, 58<\/a>, 59<\/a>, 60<\/a>, 61<\/a>, 62<\/a>, 63<\/a>, 64<\/a>, 65<\/a>, 66<\/a>, 67<\/a>, 68<\/a>, 69<\/a>, 70<\/a>, 71<\/a>, 72<\/a>, 73<\/a>, 74<\/a>, 75<\/a>, 76<\/a>, 77<\/a>, 78<\/a>, 79<\/a>, 80<\/a>, 81<\/a>, 82<\/a>, 83<\/a>, 84<\/a>, 85<\/a>, 86<\/a>, 87<\/a>, 88<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 90<\/a>, 91<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25,24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Eye of a Cow - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-eye-of-a-cow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Eye of a Cow - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I hereby nominate Bob Hicok as the Poet Cowreate of the World. 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