Sunday 22 January 2012

stone #22 - bulls



There is tenderness in his face, a gentle curiosity.
We could fill great buckets with his breath -
grassy lungfuls streaming out into the cool air.
Then the noise of my camera spooks him,
and he moves quickly, violently towards the hedgerow,
a skeletal, threadbare veil between us.
Soon there are thirty young bullocks,
jittery, huge, jostling for position,
watching our shadows trail away downhill,
unease hastening our steps.

3 comments:

Sandra Davies said...

Contradictory beasts aren't they?

Mark Sargeant said...

They always seem to be in a field that you HAVE to go through midway through a walk. They are like huge toddlers, a bit scared, a bit curious and very overexcitable!

teri said...

How perfect...great buckets with his breath- Anyone who has come across cows in a field will appreciate how well you wrote this stone. AND they are like huge toddlers!