Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Anna Swir / Happy as a dog´s tail





Happy as a dog’s tail
by Anna Swir
BIOGRAPHY
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan 
Happy as something unimportant
and free as a thing unimportant.
As something no one prizes
and which does not prize itself.
As something mocked by all
and which mocks at their mockery.
As laughter without serious reason.
As a yell able to out yell itself.
Happy as no matter what,
as any no matter what.
Happy
as a dog’s tail.


Talking to My Body (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996)

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