Larger warmer energies of earth

Under your shirt
My house I stick
My head in my house
And cry
What will you do
Get an erection
From this crying
In my house
So close as it is
To yours

Where can I go
In this truck
Its big plastic
Tank of water
My cows
Will drink
The weight
Of the water
The brakes
Spill over
The name
Dee-troit

Sip and shove
And sip and slow
Head to head
The big ones drink
Move and drink
Their thirst
How will I know
The bull is gentle
He eats my bowl
My grain
My 69 Easy

My body is strong
My triceps hook up
The hose, the clips
That flip that thing
I shift in the pause
The diesel the pedal
How will it be
Under the tree
With the pigs
The breeze, we’re in Greece
The ocean, a wallow
That used to be a pond
The pigs, they snorkel
They mud the water
Prepare their dirt
And choose the one
To weigh on

Cinco the girl
Got quilled by a porcupine
Got a sniff, got a noseful
The pliers
We acquaint her with
Will pull the needles
Free

Swollen udders
Swollen bag
Cow 20
Calf 59
Are not a pair?
All the others match
59 should be sucking no?
20 should let 59 suck

This assumes you don’t have
A squeeze chute
Or head catch
We step together to move her
A couple times and they should be
Hooked up

This chute is made of toothpicks

She shakes it

With her shoulders

Casper Lee is a poet from Wyoming and the author of No Ranch, forthcoming from Spiral Editions. Their work has been featured in publications by Luigi Ten Co., 1080 Press, Creative Writing Dept. Print Journal, Hot Pink Mag, and others.