Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2007 Porter Prize Shortlist
Full-Bucket Moon
by Ross Clark
for Ted Kooser
Dawn and dusk I milk
my herd of nine cows
by hand, the best part of
an hour and a half taken
squirting warm milk
into the bucket straddled
between my knees, while
each beast chews grass
and ignores my husbandry,
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