You’re going to have to forgive this bit of self-indulgence in advance, please.
But first, a bit of backstory:
Coconut is terribly in love with Daisy. Daisy, well, she just wants to be friends, thanks. More than one person has suggested that we hold a donkey wedding, but, before you fire up the ol’ Pinterest board, Coconut needs to ask Daisy whether she’d like to be made an honest minidonk.
And thus:
“Let us go then, you and I,
when the evening is spread out against the sky
like a goat, sleeping sprawled along the haybale.”
“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For grazings and grass-lazings which a minute will reverse.”
“I should have been a pair of ragged hooves
Shambling across the hills of empty pastures.”
“And it would have been worth it, after all.
To have squeezed the universe into a ball,
To roll it toward some overwhelming question”
“I have heard the donkeys singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”