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Leuacanthemum Vulgare and a Cow in Kyyjavi, Central Finland<\/strong> The photograph catches one ox-eye daisy On days when peace of mind\u2019s absent, it\u2019s tempting <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert Etty<\/strong> lives in Lincolnshire.\u00a0 His latest collection is A Hook in the Milk Shed (Shoestring Press) and a selection of his work appears in Something Happens, Sometimes Here: Contemporary Lincolnshire Poetry (Five Leaves).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leuacanthemum Vulgare and a Cow in Kyyjavi, Central Finland (From a photograph on Wikipedia, with acknowledgements) The photograph catches one ox-eye daisy in sun in a meadow in Kyyj\u00e4rvi and a brown and white cow slouching up to pose, view developments, or even (and fair enough) grasp the nettle and sort out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(From a photograph on Wikipedia, with acknowledgements)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nin sun in a meadow in Kyyj\u00e4rvi
\nand a brown and white cow slouching up to pose,
\nview developments, or even (and fair enough)
\ngrasp the nettle and sort out this name business
\nonce and for all.\u00a0 Cows usually give wide
\nberths to ox-eye daisies, allowing
\nthe rhizomes to take advantage, and the flowers
\nto take both credit and blame.\u00a0 But the flowers
\nsway guilt-free summers away as if,
\nif something matters, they couldn\u2019t care less.
\nClassification as noxious weeds
\nthey treat as a compliment.\u00a0 Invasive
\ngives them a purpose in life.\u00a0 This morning
\nthey blotch the field-sides in swathes, http:\/\/www.flomaxbuyonline.com\/<\/a> like white
\nblouses someone\u2019s laid out to dry.<\/p>\n
\nto flit off to central Finland and be
\nunavailable, but options like that
\nare for people who can.\u00a0 Here the ox-eye daisies
\ndazzle through June and then wither and seed,
\nand lie low for autumn.
\nAnyone wise in growth cycles and so on
\nwill come to learn what the cows have learned
\nabout what to do with ox-eye daisies,
\nand probably tend to do the same.<\/p>\n