0329 Holy Shit (2) Poem by Michael Shepherd

everything in Creation
is as holy as its Creator
how could it be otherwise?

the cow
has been the centre
of the Vedic culture
these last few thousand years
fed with love
and yielding milk and calves

and cowpatties
which when dried
provide the fuel which
the saints say is the best
for use as the domestic fire

of food it is said
the first part supports the body
and the second part the soul
while the third part falls
to support the earth

Wordsworth found immortality
amid the daffodils
but see here in the next field –
the cows are grazing as peacefully
as poets

poets who see the world
in awe and wonder
as the supreme machine
whose every part
is wholly of the whole

mind how you tread
this ground is holy