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What She Says About Ruminants
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"a ruminant has four stomachs",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 67-68) -
What She Says about the Anatomy of a Cow Pat
i
"where they drop and when",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 69-70) -
What She Says about Tongues
i
"these words are worn",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 71) -
What Queenie Says about Shunyata
i
"the new moon is a black void in the night sky",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 72) -
What the Fool's Lover Says
i
"the fool begins with zero",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 73-74) -
What She Says about Her Girlfriend's Mother
i
"one day she looks down the throat of her child",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 75) -
What Her Mother Says about Ur Woman
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 76) -
What Queenie Notices about Dictionaries
i
"as always the dictionary has",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 77) -
What the Linguist Says
i
"I dig language as if tilling",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 78) -
What the Linguist Says about Queenie
i
"she was dancing over India",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 79-80) -
What Queenie Says about Pedagogy
i
"my specialities are ancient",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 81) -
What Queenie Says about Tamil
i
"how the letters land",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 82) -
What Queenie Says about Sanskrit
i
"language is perpendicular",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 83-85) -
What Queenie Says about Subhashitani
i
"the elephants only elephants are drinking tea",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 87) -
What She Says to Her Girlfriend
i
"who is this spluttering one",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 88) -
What She Says about Gaur
i
"immoveable",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 89-90) -
What She Says about Boanthropy
i
"if you stand in the path of a boanthrope",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 91) -
What Nonsense Queenie Says about Ushas
i
"seven cows came out of the river",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 92) -
What Queenie Wishes
i
"the wingless ones are here",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 93) -
What You Say to Me
i
"the muscles on your flanks",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 94) -
What She Says to You
i
"your poems are like temples",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 95) -
What if This Is God
i
"she said",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 96) -
What the Pedant Says
i
"I am between one / a one and an other",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 98) -
What We Say about Exile
i
"there was a time when we were not exiles",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 99-101) -
What Sarasvathi Says
i
"we are slaves to their needs",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 102) -
What We Say about Loss
i
"Standen wir nicht / unter einem Passat?",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 103) -
What Queenie Says about the Question of Language
i
"no one understands anyone else's code any more",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 104-105) -
What Queenie Says about Altamira
i
"you can tell by the shape of our bodies",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 106) -
Queenie's Aubade
i
"morning's fingers prod you awake in the torrid zone",
2011
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Cow 2011; (p. 107) -
What She Says About Language
i
"she was drowning",
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012; (p. 176-179)
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