Lord and Chariot

时间：2014-06-23 08:04:24

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Lord and Chariot
Rickey Laurentiis
 
 
I say the dead done caught me in a special knot 
    and lured1, and dragged me to the interior. 
 I say his face is strange here, a moment cruel 
    but not without its silk, its earned sadness. 
 He asks me to touch it, so I touch it. No light 
    can blossom here I know, as my bones know. 
 
                                    · ·
 
Why ask me who I am. Who really knows 
    the place of my future? I'm his, or I'm not --
 I'm black, or black was made me. The light 
    turns the cane2 a wanted color. I walk its interior. 
 There are only grasses here, only sadness. 
    I pick one. I tear it. I think to be free is to be cruel. 
 
                                    · ·
 
He says the dead are versions of himself: little ulcers（溃疡）, 
    little cruel insurgencies. He says, Know 
 that I'm master here, my boy, my little sadness. 
    There is no riot. (Riot.) Or fear. (Fear.) Bought, knotted, 
 I'm the boy in the cane field that's his, the air or 
    I'm his whip that stirred the air, scarred the light. 
 
                                    · ·
 
My back is the touch of violence. Like light, 
    my blood trills. I kneel. I ooze（渗出，泄露）. Cruel 
 underworld, I freeze in your interior --
    Though I'm called queen. I lie at his waist. I know 
 the true color of his loved-on skin. I say it's white, not 
    purity. I say that my strength is my sadness. 
 
                                    · ·
 
To be free, I think, like him, is a sadness --
    Nothing at all. But to be bold, to light 
 a panic, to tear a cage of cane by blade is not 
    freedom, either. The cane grows back. Cruel --
 Can't you see it's the one word I know? Even my bones know 
    this language, and moan it deep in their interior. 
 
                                    · ·
 
I say the dead done left me, stranded3, at the interior, 
    which is this stranger's face, his sprawling4 sadness. 
 I say any blade in my hand is just my hand, and I know 
    its weight exactly, the lift of its bite. O light: 
 sweet molestation5 in the fields. One lord. One chariot. Cruel 
    silk, I'm a boy in love. Let the dead, their dead.

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1 lured 77df5632bf83c9c64fb09403ae21e649     
吸引，引诱（lure的过去式与过去分词形式）
参考例句：
  • The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车，但又设法逃掉了。
  • Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下，继续奋力向前。
2 cane RsNzT     
n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的
参考例句：
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
3 stranded thfz18     
a.搁浅的，进退两难的
参考例句：
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
4 sprawling 3ff3e560ffc2f12f222ef624d5807902     
adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）
参考例句：
  • He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
  • a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
5 molestation f7008a1bafc8cde16fe27be6848fdede     
n.骚扰，干扰，调戏；折磨
参考例句：
  • Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation. 2003年的今天，迈克尔·杰克逊因被警方指控有儿童性骚扰行为而被捕。 来自互联网
  • Jackson pleads not guilty on the molestation charges. 2004年：杰克逊认罪不认罪的性骚扰指控。 来自互联网

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