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Sick Room.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	182
Issue	3
Published	2003-06-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

SICK ROOM

   Every time Canaletto painted Venice
   he painted her from a different angle,

   sometimes from points of view
   he must have imagined,

   for there is no place in the city
   he could have stood to observe such scenes.

   How ingenious of him to visualize
   a dome or canal from any point in space.

   How passionate he was
   to delineate Venice from perspectives

   that required him to mount the air
   and levitate there with his floating brush.

   But I have been sick in this bed
   for over sixty hours,

   and I am not Canaletto,
   and this airless little...

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