For Ruth Stone

时间：2014-12-22 05:08:39

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For Ruth Stone
Joseph Millar
 
 
Sometimes you say bad things about people 
 claiming it can't be helped 
 
you crawl farther into the darkness
 just to see what it feels like 
 
but today you count the late frozen stars 
 and Jupiter drifting into the dawn 
 
because Ruth the poet has passed away 
 who listened to the muse1 alone: 
 
the mailman and the trash truck driver, 
 the women who work in Lost and Found, 
 
their faded hair wispy2 as cotton gauze 
 in the discount store downtown. 
 
They are folding a dark wool sweater 
 that smells of camphor and lighter3 fluid, 
 
in one pocket a train ticket 
 from Roanoke to Syracuse. 
 
The creaky hinge on the Ladies Room door 
 is silent now in the vacant station, 
 
only a traveling woman asleep, 
 her suitcase tied with ribbons and twine 
 
and snowflakes dusting the platform, 
 their stellar dendrites and crystal rosettes 
 
flickering4 like signals from outer space 
 planetary and blind.

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1 muse v6CzM     
n.缪斯（希腊神话中的女神），创作灵感
参考例句：
  • His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。
  • Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。
2 wispy wispy     
adj.模糊的；纤细的
参考例句：
  • Grey wispy hair straggled down to her shoulders.稀疏的灰白头发披散在她肩头。
  • The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.半轮月亮躲在淡淡的云彩之后。
3 lighter 5pPzPR     
n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级
参考例句：
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
4 flickering wjLxa     
adj.闪烁的，摇曳的，一闪一闪的
参考例句：
  • The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
  • The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。

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