Poem: Butchering

'BUTCHERING' title above a painted portrait of an older woman in floral clothes with green farm landscape.

A graphic artist interprets Rhina P. Espaillat’s poem “Butchering.”

Watercolor comic of an older woman with blood-stained apron holding a knife, chopping wood with an axe.
Watercolor comic of an elderly woman, bowl of food, washing feet, and close-up of two cows in a field.
Four watercolor panels: close-ups of an animal eye, a cow lowing, a person hugging a cow, and a human eye with text.