Reclined among cushions, I name the pasture green,
and so it is: the beast consents to leaf and stem.
A voice without a mouth ornaments,
unhungry, yet it tempers hunger into law.
Thought passes through us like figured bass:
no author crowned, no object spared,
and what must be classified learns
how softly meaning eats.
Movement I / Taxonomies of Want
Cows are Vegetables
Reclined among cushions, I name the pasture green,
and so it is: the beast consents to leaf and stem.
A voice without a mouth ornaments,