ANIMALS - a daily series of poems with illustrations by @bennettitalia
THE DREAM OF THE WHITE COW
In India
Cows are sacred.
Here we eat them.
This cow is dreaming of fish.
She's dreaming of saltwater.
Her skin is milky
And her milk
Feeds an entire country full of babies.
We drink her everyday.
Nothing can wean us from her.
She dreams of the amniotic fluid from which she came
of the sea at the beginning of time
Of fish, fish, fish, fish, fish.
©2018 Bennett Italia
These poems are adapted from an art book I made awhile back. Check out the rest of the series so far, if you like:
©2018 Bennett Italia
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