This poem is taken from PN Review 65, Volume 15 Number 3, January - February 1989.
La MorenaMy white cow tonight is quite silent
My white cow milking a heart of darkness
What tricks and silks will she tumble into
My white cow with opening parachute lips
My white cow with a shirt of woodsmoke
My white cow with a beehive of desires
Sometimes an abandon seizes her by the horns
Sometimes she is placid and sings in church
My white cow dancing in her field of fire
My white cow walking with dangerous steps
Everywhere she supposes there are cathedrals
Everywhere bells inscribe on air their spiral signs
My white cow with marked ideas of her own
My white cow whose tuft is a tangle of tempers
The baskets of air hang from her solid bones
The jugs of earth lift with her little breasts
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