Poor Cow on sore cloven feet trawls fields farms barns lows along lanes nine miles long tows night into dawn finds her own calf born days before and torn away from her huge mother’s milk
Note
This poem was inspired by the true story of a heifer named Blackie, quoted by Mark Gold in his book Living Without Cruelty (Green Print, 1990). She escaped over a fence and made the long journey back to her calf from whom she had been separated at market.
