Copper Cattle

  

Copper Cattle


 

In the near distance,

copper cattle

with long glass horns, 

have stopped,

in a yellow field,

 

yellow against black foothills,

black against ochre mountains,

 

that point like steeples 

to white clouds grazing

in the maya blue sky.

 

They stare from dark tourmaline eyes.

 

They don’t know 

what maya blue means.


 

John Ziegler

 

John Ziegler is a poet and painter, a gardener, a traveler, originally from Pennsylvania, who recently migrated to a mountain village in Northern Arizona. His poetry has been published in Poetica Review, Literary Yard, Autumn Sky Poetry, Poetry Breakfast, Academy Of The Heart And Mind, and Rusty Truck.


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