Highland Cattle
Barbara Boches
| poetry
If I could be a hairy coo grazing
in summer by the sound, hair like some sulky
teen over my eyes, horns in ceaseless
shrug at holiday
boaters, I’d late afternoons lumber down to
the sea to swim—nostrils, bony
tips jutting through waves—then
surface beside a kayaker
and moo. How he’d shriek.
Barbara Boches’ poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Solstice, SWWIM, upstreet, and other literary magazines. Her first chapbook Which Will Change the Other More? was published by Finishing Line Press.