We are challenged today "to find an idiomatic phrase from a different language or culture" and use it as a springboard for a poem. I have chosen an idiom from one of my additional languages, Afrikaans: "katjie van die baan," literally translated as "kitten of the track," meaning the same as "social butterfly" in English.
Kitten of the track
She was a kitten of the track,
but now she's stuck
in a basket called home,
pouring over art and poetry,
lapping up the easy, free time
and basking in the sunshine
of her solitude
Andrea Vermaak © 2020
