Alan Harris reading
My Cow, My Guru
by Alan Harris
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My brown cow lives in the now. How? Nohow. Quantity and time and hay slide through her unnoticed. She doesn't count her stomachs or her breaths or her days. She seeks no acupuncture treatments, nor does she brew herbal teas. Being the best she can be holds no interest for her as she grazingly meditates with slow-moving hooves and jaws over a grassy pasture. Her Buddhic eyes see out and in all the way. My cow knows an old, old mantra that she neither flaunts nor hides-- when the world needs a moo, she gives it one. As her swishing tail with Zen precision scatters a bunch of flies like unwelcome thoughts, my brown cow's gaze is inly intimating to me, "No how is there to now." |
From the book Heartclips (1996)
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