The Dogs In Dutch Paintings by David GRAHAM Romanian version by Ana DOINA: Pasager/27 www.csuchico.edu/engl/flumepress/chapbook_16.html |
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How shall I not love them, snoozing right through the Annunciation? They inhabit the outskirts of every importance, sprawl dead center in each oblivious household. They're digging at fleas or snapping at scraps, dozing with noble abandon while a boy bells their tails. Often they present their rumps in the foreground of some martyrdom. What Christ could lean so unconcernedly against a table leg, the feast above continuing? Could the Virgin in her joy match this grace as a hound sagely ponders an upturned turtle? No scholar at his huge book will capture my eye so well as the skinny haunches, the frazzled tails and serene optimism of the least of these mutts, curled in the corners of the world's dazzlement. |