[New-Poetry] Feeling like a buried donkey

[Anny Ballardini]

This is _lovely_! Thank you so much!
Have a great day.

Anny

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:15 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:13 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
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> Feeling like a buried donkey, as they say in Italy.
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> Anny Ballardini
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> *Idiomatic *
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> It is a big question to pose so early in the morning
> or "in the light woven by birds"
> as the Estonians say,
> but still I must ask what is my place in life?
> my "seat on the invisible train",
> as they say in Hungary.
> I mean I am just sitting here
> in a lawn chair listening to a thrush,
> "the little entertainer of the woods",
> as the Swiss call him,
> while out there in the world
> mobs of people are rushing over bridges
> in and out of cities?
> Vegetables grow heavy in their fields,
> clouds fly across the "face of the earth"
> as we call it in English,
> and sometimes rockets lift off in the distance –
> and I mean that quite literally,
> "from the top of the table" as the Portuguese have it,
> real rockets rising from the horizon,
> or "the big line if you're an Australian,
> leaving behind rich gowns of exhaust smoke,
> long, smooth trajectories,
> and always the ocean below,
> "the water machine" as the South Sea islanders put it –
> everything takes place right on schedule,
> "by the clock of the devil",
> as our grandparents were fond of saying.
> And still here I sit with my shirt off,
> the dog at my side, daydreaming –
> "juggling balls of cotton", as they like to say in France.
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> --Billy Collins.  *Sailing Alone Around the Room.*
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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