by Taylor Hagood
Goats I like best,
the pussel-gutted ones especially.
Their rectangular pupils
widescreen patches of night
in pools pale with caustic regard.
I have grown tired of overburdening them
with myth.
It is enough just to watch
them breathing amid dirt and hay.
Taylor Hagood is a writer, speaker, and educator currently based in south Florida. Hagood’s publications include several books of literary criticism, the biography/true crime Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend, and poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews in such journals as American Literature, FRiGG, and The Rumpus.
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