Stuart Davis: Premier, 1957
by X.J. Kennedy
With large and swollen bag of milk
She stands, this stabled cow.
Black cat pads in on cushioned feet
To raise a loud MEOW.
Now farmer squeezes bag – oh, see
The warm white fluid sluice ! –
As fat cat begs for any drop
Of creamy new cow juice.
Well fed, cat purrs, one hundred per
Cent sound asleep, it seems,
While Sandman sprinkles her for free
From his large bag of dreams.