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Samples of poetry from NHI publications
| THE MILKING |
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She showed him the milking, his head pressed on her side, deep and mother-belly-full — how a squeeze, then a stroke brought streams of release to fill up her pail; he showed her the castle — the stiff crest of a hat — how Roundheads and Kings men suckled their Civil War tit; on the straw bed of her shippen he turned her bucket red. |
| BILL HEADDON |
| from New Hope International Review Vol.20 #3 Next poem Previous poem |
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