'tall girls fetch more cattle'

the title, a natural truth
long limbed girls run swiftly

the article says
'tall girls fetch more cattle
'tall girls command 60 to 100 cattle
'tall girls grow as high as sunflowers
'tall girls brush the branches of the big tree'

and i see
these girls possess great power

but it goes on
'tall girls' daughters grow quickly
'can be married young
'to fetch more cattle'

and the well drawn picture
of graceful young women
racing among cattle
falls off the wall
shatters on parched yellow dirt

each shard chanting
its too-long hymn