A wonderful poem: but I am jostled by the mismatch between the title and the first line. Is it a simile: exposing the bare joints of poetic cleaving, or does it have the confident, masculine solidity of metaphor. Is it the intriguing humanness of "someone's udder", or the again the logical normality of "swollen udder". I think these differences are important; a simile is a different frequency to a metaphor, and I would not be brave enough to freely translate one to another.
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