"in the foothills" "they will stay here" "forever" "like you" "johnny" "who would not kill them" "he would never kill" "those last few cows"
"the big fog clears" "we receive cows" "dark angels" "they emerge"
"from mist" "and all its native grasses" "and the introduced grasses" "where eucalyptus" "drown" "they call" "this place" "their own" "a cow" "can be heard" "here" "downwind" "forever" "this brilliant morning" "they lived" "they held it" "like a cow would"
"in the sway" "of the velvet hips" "some cattle" "who know this place" "have the breeze" "as a body" "the boulders as hearts" "their milk lines" "of mothers and calves" "like warm streams" "flooding the sunlight" "this is first light"
"after the magpies sang" "the big mob of cows" "were the first" "to receive the sun" "at Rylstone" "on their fat black backs!"
"i stood before them" "those earthy dark nuns" "who did not want me there" "without johnny" "so i didn't stay long"
"the lines of light and shadow" "blew down the slope" "being the footfall of cows"
"bringing the hoofs to my feet" "we all stood along the hill" "like whispers" "bellowing" "in the broad daylight"
"it was as though we were standing" "alongside" "a giant free falling wheel" "propelled by sun" "that rotated the bands of light and shadow" "to where we stood" "and back into the wide blue sky" "this light from cows is coming towards me" "in rotational bands" "along the complex timeline"
"of the Rylstone property"
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