The Meadow

A Poetic Response to: linking the image

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

The pasture stretches between the highway and the river,
A throwback to 100 years ago, a time when family farmers were the norm,
When everyone had a milk cow, chickens, and a garden of veggies.
The pasture holds a small herd of cows,
A rather unusual, rare breed:
The Belted Galloway, black and white, an Oreo.
It’s not a large cow; bred to survive in the harsh upland of…