At the Border Company
In the Diary Barn
Everyone is writing
And no one can really
Talk What are you working on
Is the only safe question
I’m working on a book
About a cow who goes
To space And you O great
Count every word
Adding white to white
So where does she go
The cow The Milky Way
Of course and never
She never comes back
From EtC (Solid Objects, 2023) by Laura Mullen. Copyright © 2023 by Laura Mullen. Used with the permission of the publisher.