Three short scenes from a pasture, each one caught in a single glance. In the first, a huge oak holds the daytime moon in its branches while a goat stands at its base. In the second, a Holstein cow with a heart-shaped mark on her forehead licks a salt block. In the third, horses rest in the shade of a weeping willow, and one of them pees in a long stream.
The speaker never says how they feel, but the attention itself tells us a lot. They look closely, and they find the same quiet interest in everything: a moon, a cow's marking, a horse relieving itself. The jump from the lovely (moon, heart) to the earthy (piss) is funny and honest, as if the poem refuses to pick out only the pretty parts. The mood is calm, amused, and affectionate. Nothing happens, and that is the point: the animals simply go on being themselves, and the poem is content to watch.