Lost Civilization

时间：2013-10-29 04:49:42

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Lost Civilization

Henry Hart

Wine festered（溃烂） at the bottom of my skull¹.

Wind blew the night's big ideas off the trees.

The moon had frostbite（冻伤，冻疮）. The stars did, too.

Be kind to animals was mother's mantra（咒语）.

Do your duty was father's.

Their ghosts breathed on my rear-view mirror.

I parked by a locked bank.

An SPCA volunteer guided me across ice

to a llama（美洲驼） starved by a bankrupt farmer.

Dogs lined up behind the topless Cadillac

of the Christmas queen, polar bears

crooning（低吟） Elvis hits on a plywood iceberg².

A police car uncoiled red razor wire

from a siren. Shriners

traced signs for infinity³ in dwarf⁴ Corvettes.

I shivered among Cub⁵ Scouts

staggering into wind like Arctic explorers,

lips blue as their uniforms.

We marched beneath a pink cloud on a spacewalk

past Main Street's plastic Santas

to a big tent by Saint Francis Church.

Warming my hands around cups

of mulled cider, I listened to Youths

for Christ argue about beasts in the Apocalypse.

After the first snow, the floats huddled

in the parking lot

like a city buried beneath desert sand.

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1 skull
n.头骨；颅骨
参考例句：
The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。 He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

2 iceberg
n.冰山，流冰，冷冰冰的人
参考例句：
The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。 The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。

3 infinity
n.无限，无穷，大量
参考例句：
It is impossible to count up to infinity.不可能数到无穷大。 Theoretically,a line can extend into infinity.从理论上来说直线可以无限地延伸。

4 dwarf
n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小
参考例句：
The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。 The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。

5 cub
n.幼兽，年轻无经验的人
参考例句：
The lion cub's mother was hunting for what she needs. 这只幼师的母亲正在捕猎。 The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast. 这头幼兽吸吮着它妈妈的奶水。