Thick Description

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Thick Description
Eleanor Chai
 
 
I cut lines of ink as I read through the night. 
 I imagine the margins1 on pages are slim wings 
 between plankton2 and stars. I find what I need 
 in far sources. I make them intimate, 
 
I make them mine with the speed of light. 
 
He was seventeen, just a man, still a boy and ready to die.
 A true sacrifice, a living encounter -- 
                                                      This father has paid 
 the sum of a daughter's dowry for his son to be consecrated 
 with a rod through his cheeks and tongue. The boy's face, 
 his mouth pierced and gaping3, hangs on the page, helpless. 
 
His clove-jelly eyes float and metamorphose into my mother's 
 eyes, eyes I can't possibly remember without images like his -- 
 images forbidden, seized and smuggled4 into my life. 
 I can make anything mean what I need to find. 
 
The stolen scrap5, the plosive glance saturated6 in 
 longing is not looking at me: I am looking at it. 
 Every description is thick with a will to revivify -- 
 reclaim, renounce7, rename what is sought. 
 
Blind hunger drives when I read. A scream, the echo of 
 a scream, hangs over that Nova Scotian village ... and bit 
 by bit a village I've never seen swells8 into me. The ovoid 
 mouth of my mother's life, its slivering9 silence exists 
 
in that scream -- unheard, in memory. She came alive 
forever -- not loud, just alive forever redeemed10 from her never 
 with no speech. A noun transformed to modify 
 action revived her, returned her to me. 
 
The words as they lay may refuse to say what you need. 
 Drop to your knees. Crawl beneath the overhanging, 
 the dangling11 down. Stroke the described, 
 from underneath12. It reeks13 of the atavistic 
 
to live. It survives by swallowing.

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1 margins 18cef75be8bf936fbf6be827537c8585     
边( margin的名词复数 )； 利润； 页边空白； 差数
参考例句：
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
  • To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
2 plankton B2IzA     
n.浮游生物
参考例句：
  • Plankton is at the bottom of the marine food chain.浮游生物处于海洋食物链的最底层。
  • The plankton in the sea feeds many kinds of animals. 海的浮游生物成为很多种动物的食物。
3 gaping gaping     
adj.口的；张口的；敞口的；多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 )；张开，张大
参考例句：
  • Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 smuggled 3cb7c6ce5d6ead3b1e56eeccdabf595b     
水货
参考例句：
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
5 scrap JDFzf     
n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废
参考例句：
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
6 saturated qjEzG3     
a.饱和的，充满的
参考例句：
  • The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
  • a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液
7 renounce 8BNzi     
v.放弃；拒绝承认，宣布与…断绝关系
参考例句：
  • She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.她决定弃绝尘世去当修女。
  • It was painful for him to renounce his son.宣布与儿子脱离关系对他来说是很痛苦的。
8 swells e5cc2e057ee1aff52e79fb6af45c685d     
增强( swell的第三人称单数 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情）
参考例句：
  • The waters were heaving up in great swells. 河水正在急剧上升。
  • A barrel swells in the middle. 水桶中部隆起。
9 slivering a3c2b733001da070ac257835f0ec8e5b     
辊痕（板材、带材表面热轧缺陷）
参考例句：
10 redeemed redeemed     
adj. 可赎回的，可救赎的 动词redeem的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句：
  • She has redeemed her pawned jewellery. 她赎回了当掉的珠宝。
  • He redeemed his watch from the pawnbroker's. 他从当铺赎回手表。
11 dangling 4930128e58930768b1c1c75026ebc649     
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口
参考例句：
  • The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
  • The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。
12 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面
参考例句：
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。
13 reeks 2b1ce62478954fcaae811ea0d5e13779     
n.恶臭( reek的名词复数 )v.发出浓烈的臭气( reek的第三人称单数 )；散发臭气；发出难闻的气味 (of sth)；明显带有（令人不快或生疑的跡象）
参考例句：
  • His statement reeks of hypocrisy. 他的话显然很虛伪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His manner reeks prosperity. 他的态度表现得好象有钱的样子。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

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