Yes, the Herefords of Valatie, NY, are back -- and they star in their very own manger-side story: how is it that animals played such a prominent part in that first Christmas? Why are animals so much a part of ourselves? Great photos of these spectacular beasts, happy at the holidays, and commentary, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Bovinity
There were cows
in the manger scene --
I am sure on that.
I don't know if they
were careful about their
sounds or of their unambiguous
but nonetheless distinctive cattle scent.
These things I cannot speak for,
their having happened long before I
or any other of you all were ever born;
but one thing I can certainly claim:
I know the cows are gentle,
and gently lowing creatures, and
may have added to that frame,
to that dear picture so ingenuous,
so pallid and so frail
it almost fails but most sustains
where it is weak, like animals' bodies,
limitless though meek.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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