At Holmesburg

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At Holmesburg

Susannah Nevison

All I saw before me were acres of skin. It was like

a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time.

DR. ALBERT KLIGMAN

If one takes the bird's eye

view, it's easy to see

how a field becomes

a fine-tuned system

designed to give us

exactly what we want:

row after row of finely

turned earth, pliant

beneath specific tools,

which we sharpen

in dark houses after

a long winter's sleep,

which we drag across

the earth until it yields

a pattern we can work

with, a matrix we bless

with growth, control

for weeds, eradicate

what shouldn't take.

What we want is to push

the boundaries without

giving way to disarray¹.

To see what might

survive these methods

is what we want, to raze

what fails us. Summon rain.

Under ideal conditions,

it's anybody's game.

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1 disarray
n.混乱，紊乱，凌乱
参考例句：
His personal life fell into disarray when his wife left him.妻子离去后，他的个人生活一片混乱。 Our plans were thrown into disarray by the rail strike.铁路罢工打乱了我们的计划。