County Sligo, Carrowmore, Tuesday 26th July 2022…
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White his heavy mane
and his massive hoofs
pounded in purple;
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his body dyed, blood
red, from the clay bog
with a blank pap
under breast and back;
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and from nape to rump
a thirty-boy gap
his ponderous tail
hanging hinder haunch;
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to his cows the
beloved idol of herds;
father of big beasts,
born to bear victory:
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bellowing in greatness…
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