"some oscarboscarbinary bevy"

Davis, Muldoon, Murray, Dickinson, Nash, Johnson

Lydia Davis:

Paul Muldoon:

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Les Murray:

Emily Dickinson:

A Clover’s simple / Fame / Remembered of the / Cow / Is sweeter than / enamelled Realms / Of notoriety -

Ogden Nash:

Robert Johnson, “Milkcow’s Calf Blues,” rec. January 20, 1937:

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