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Absolutely Revolting
Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2007 Porter Prize Shortlist

2007 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlist

by Australian Book Review •
March 2007, no. 289

Full-Bucket Moon
by Ross Clark

 

for Ted Kooser

Dawn and dusk I milk
my herd of nine cows
by hand, the best part of
an hour and a half taken
squirting warm milk
into the bucket straddled
between my knees, while
each beast chews grass
and ignores my husbandry,

 


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