Kay Ryan: Turtle

Kay Ryan: Turtle Who would be a turtle who could help it? A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared（四桨） helmet,（头盔） she can ill afford（经受不起） the chances she must take in rowing toward the grasses that she eats. Her track is graceless, like dragging a packing-case places, and almost any slope（斜坡） defeats her modest hopes. Even being practical, she's often stuck up（自大的） to the axle on her way to something edible.（适宜食用的） With everything optimal, she skirts（绕开） the ditch（沟） which would convert her shell into a serving dish. She lives below luck-level, never imagining some lottery（彩票） will change her load of pottery to wings. Her only levity is patience, the sport of truly chastened（磨练的） things.