Kroll, Jeri

Jeri Kroll

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Why Cows?  Irish Landscape Art

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  Jeri Kroll. ‘Why Cows? Irish Landscape Art’. Transnational Literature Vol. 5 no. 1, November 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html      Why Cows? Irish Landscape Art   Because they sauntered into the dusk, black and white and tan, redefining green as they moved  across the juicy fields, patches shiny as patent, rich as cream sherry.  Because in the shimmering light they looked satisfied with themselves, tight udders eased.  Unhooked from machines, prodded out of the yard, they sashayed through the gate to paradise,  heads already down, nibbling a springy dinner in slurry season, air sticky and ripe.  Because when they buried their muzzles in the feathery pasture they ruminated on pleasure.  Because being cows they knew what to do with deep grass swishing against their knees.  Because in understanding where to graze and how to space themselves they drew the landscape together,  balanced the round hills with the angular barn, the barbed fence smothered in hedge,      Jeri Kroll. ‘Why Cows? Irish Landscape Art’. Transnational Literature Vol. 5 no. 1, November 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html   2 the toasted coconut of new-mown fields with a lone oak halfway down the slope, a steady line drawing parallel  with the narrow lane above and me, a point on it, now somehow part of this perspective.  Jeri Kroll       

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