We have fences places
no human’s been to since—
no bovine notices
grazing home
to friends and family
closer to good water and
the feed truck’s track
and us. To be understocked
makes good neighbors
best, barbed wire tangles
under fallen limbs
that will rot before
we ever remove them—
an old man’s economy
between energy and need
that native cows ensure.
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