is that what grass is?* i said in awe, a child once again, wide-eyed with desire-- to explore, to roll and tumble over vastness crest and trough of hillsides breathing in the sun, then nap among the cows, pet their broadness blinking there in ease above the buzzing vale. am i a child still? i cooed into the wind, watched it stroke and flicker bright the woven green atop the next, and felt it in my breast. am i akin to you? i squinted closer still at gaze of bovine wakefulness to my refrain-- uncurling there against the matted fresh with yawning tongues and udder slosh, bounce of calf, frolic laps, then bullish mimic make in sport away from watchful eye
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a response to section 6 of Whitman's "Song of Myself", some Spring memories of cows and being at a grass-fed dairy