Talking about the Wind

时间：2013-10-11 05:31:53

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Talking about the Wind
Katie Peterson
 
 
I hate 
 to invoke1 the 
 seasons. They 
 
dismantle2（拆除，取消） us. 
 We do the same to them. 
 I hate to say the spring. It's become 
 
bone-deep routine. Nice going, 
 May, permission 
 or bluster3, even the little 
 
leaves that top 
 the cottonwoods, 
 you take 
 
(shrunk coinage) you take 
 charge and a share 
 of everything, leaving the roots 
 
and skeletons of these, who say
 obscenities（淫秽）, they've 
 been wanting 
 
to say them to you all year, 
 with what you've done, 
 do now, and soon will. Opposites 
 
I say, always the most 
 taxing. That one tree 
 without moving willing to walk 
 
into the wind all by her heroic lonesome 
 until my eyes move and her branches 
 tie her to a sister next to her. Even 
 
my winnowing4 self, which loves distinctions, 
 confuses her with her. 
 With these actions your world 
 
takes off a layer from us. 
 A hand mimes5 a knife drop, as practice. 
 I'm close to nothing 
 
all at once, and it makes 
 small sense, as much as 
 talking about the wind as an amount, 
 
paid or refused. Or throwing my love 
 as I always do 
 over sleeping things, the slow, and what the wind 
 
makes by blowing over, 
 
and then throwing myself over my love—

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1 invoke G4sxB     
v.求助于(神、法律)；恳求，乞求
参考例句：
  • Let us invoke the blessings of peace.让我们祈求和平之福。
  • I hope I'll never have to invoke this clause and lodge a claim with you.我希望我永远不会使用这个条款向你们索赔。
2 dismantle Vtlxa     
vt.拆开，拆卸；废除，取消
参考例句：
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助，拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动，于是，我决定把它拆开。
3 bluster mRDy4     
v.猛刮；怒冲冲的说；n.吓唬，怒号；狂风声
参考例句：
  • We could hear the bluster of the wind and rain.我们能听到狂风暴雨的吹打声。
  • He was inclined to bluster at first,but he soon dropped.起初他老爱吵闹一阵，可是不久就不做声了。
4 winnowing afff048007ee6ee108e313476bff7439     
v.扬( winnow的现在分词 )；辨别；选择；除去
参考例句：
  • The petrel came winnowing in from afar on the sea. 海燕从遥远的地方振翼飞来。 来自辞典例句
  • He is winnowing wheat now. 他现在正在簸小麦。 来自辞典例句
5 mimes b7dc2388172d09ec768ce7212f97673c     
n.指手画脚( mime的名词复数 )；做手势；哑剧；哑剧演员v.指手画脚地表演，用哑剧的形式表演( mime的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
  • Hanks so scrupulously, heroically mimes the wasting wought by the disease. 汉克斯咬紧牙关，一丝不苟地模仿艾滋病造成的虚弱。 来自互联网
  • On an airplane, fellow passengers mimicked her every movement -- like mimes on a street. 在飞机上，有乘客模拟她的每个动作—就像街头模拟表演。 来自互联网

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