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Original poem reprinted online here: "In Vitebsk There Lives a Cow" by Nuala Ní Chonchúir Originally read: March 14, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Nuala Ní Chonchúir So this is an eckphrastic poem about the March Chagall painting "I and the Village."  I'm going to write down something I haven't done in a long time -- write my first impressions of the poem, what I wrote on the page: - Male figure taking care of the cow - Inside further in the painting, kind of humourous - Peace through sound and pesence And since there's three quatrains, I think I should explore each part that I previous wrote down and see if my mind has changed. "Male figure taking care of the cow" Again, there's a poem in which the first line is the title.   To keep the quatrain form, the writer did this -- also since the first line refers to the cow -- it's safe to assume that the cow will play a big role in the poem, at least the first stanza.  There's a...