The daughter brought something home in her apron;
leaves were tangled in her hair.
She came in the kitchen, where the family were sitting around the
table,
and opened the apron to show them what she had:
a cow skull with shattered nose.
As the family looked at it, terrified, the girl said,
"I looked everywhere,
but I couldn't find anything better than this."
The father shouted and grabbed the skull
while the mother chased the girl out of the house --
Through the window, you could see her
running away among the trees.
The mother took the skull from the father, and put it
on the table, beside a bowl of tomatoes.
As she decorated the skull with parsley, everybody smiled --
all but the father, who was following the girl with his eyes
as she disappeared among the green branches.