Sun Beef

“sometimes the sun sets on / a cow that does not realize she is

interrupting something / of cosmic proportions”

– Margot Delaet, transl. from Dutch

sometimes the sun sets on

a cow who does not

realize and sometimes

the sun sets on and on

interrupts me and sometimes

loves me brings me oatmeal

and keeps on setting some sun

somewhere it opens like cotton it’s

filled with wet meringue

comic portions of wet egg

and a cow learning to see

and the sun interrupting itself

waking into a day from which

I will never leave and

sometimes the sun sets

but you cow keep cudding

that oatmeal pain and bellow

as you lay an egg a wet sun

on cotton not knowing somewhere

the sun sets and sets

E. Jesse Capobianco is a poet and doctoral student in Poetics at SUNY Buffalo. Ze has received graduate degrees from the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven and George Mason University’s MFA, where ze completed theses on poetic epistemologies and hypnotic hermeneutics, respectively. Hir poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Cordite Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, P-QUEUE, Scud, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and elsewhere. Jesse splits time between Buffalo and Brussels.