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"Ruminant"

By Dana GoodyearPosted Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 9:44 AM ET

Listen to Dana Goodyear reading this poem.


I will trot you out
on your cold feet
to see the frost
in the field,
covered in childish flowers
when we last spoke.
I will coddle you like a cow
with her last meal,
and open everything up
that tries to heal.

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Dana Goodyear is an editor at The New Yorker.
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