walking on the sussex coast
I love this stone barn. The ground around is green, springy,
rolling over into the ocean. The hoof marks in the muck outside
the door mean only that the hoofs are glad to be going out, it is
not an ominous sign. I stand a long time. The straw on the ground
is fresh and yellow from tumbled bales. A portable wooden gate
leans against the stone wall; it is calm, like an altar, some
slivers missing. Maybe at night we split up into different beings,
and one of them comes back-here, to stand inside this barn, with only
one eye, loved by the other cows, or at least recognized by the
brown patches on my sides. How lovely to flop down here, our sides
touching other cows, protected from seawind by stone walls that
will later become the color of night. We know that at dawn we can
look out the open door and see the green hills again!
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