Ezra Becoming Kosher

时间：2014-05-19 05:30:17

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Ezra Becoming Kosher
Eleanor Stanford
 
 
What's memory but a shucked oyster, 
 salt rimed and shivering? 
 
                        At one and a half, 
 he pointed1 at the ceiling fan, said 
 rotate, as though his mouth was origin 
 of some first turning. 
 
So many rules to be a Jew, 
 my mother sighs, leaving behind 
 Long Island, Flatbush, Yiddishkeit. 
 
Ezra, balanced between the past 
 and a tender pork roast, puts down 
 his fork. 
 
What's memory but an omnivorous（杂食的） 
 shadow, cloven-hoofed? 
 
Whose memory? Not mine. 
 
Between what my mother won't cop to, 
 and what my son won't eat, I'm half-invisible, 
 half-confused. 
 
                        Already, at nine, he retreats behind his too-long 
 bangs and Bach inventions. 
 
And my mother, the hard bead2 of Ashkenazi 
 irony in her left breast cut out, radiated, her Judaism, too, 
 now in full remission. 
 
Memory, relentless3 bottom-feeder, 
 gatherer of refuse and debris4 --
 
                            And Ezra, turning 
 away, knowing: thou shalt not cook the calf 
 in its mother's milk; the animal should be bled 
 swiftly and just so, prayers said thus 
 over its bowed head.

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1 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的，直截了当的
参考例句：
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
2 bead hdbyl     
n.念珠；(pl.)珠子项链；水珠
参考例句：
  • She accidentally swallowed a glass bead.她不小心吞下了一颗玻璃珠。
  • She has a beautiful glass bead and a bracelet in the box.盒子里有一颗美丽的玻璃珠和手镯。
3 relentless VBjzv     
adj.残酷的，不留情的，无怜悯心的
参考例句：
  • The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
  • Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。
4 debris debris     
n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片
参考例句：
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

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