Cosmology

时间：2014-08-08 07:03:43

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Cosmology
Christopher Buckley
 
 
Most days I find myself
 considering the encrypted
 clouds, though, while everything
 is blue through the boughs 
 of heaven, I know the stars
 will hardly spell out 
 our names in specks 
 across the enormity（巨大，暴行） of night.
 We have these bodies 
 from stars, second-hand, 
 a diminishing（逐渐缩小的） quotient 
 of dust lagging behind 
 the soul, beggar with a cart --
 told sticks, furniture
 piled on. . . . 
                      You're tired,
 your bones positioned on 
 the couch each evening to ruminate1,
 to remember where you left off
 taking notes, floating 
 suppositions, a few 
 unlikely alternatives,
 before they fall, like 
 the last remaining cloud
 into the sea, 
 before the stars 
 scar your thoughts 
 and the moon freezes
 the lemon blossoms,
 another vague（模糊的） brilliance2
 abandoning you . . . .
 
More dust glimmers3
 before dawn 
 where you can see 
 the back of the sky
 shouldering empty space,
 confirming nothing --
 the dulled earth 
 just another rock, 
 where we came from --
 
a few molecules4 rewired,
 bunched up now and
 heading off. . . . 
 
You've come this far
 with holes in your shoes,
 leaves in the pockets 
 of your coat -- all you have
 finally to show for hunting
 the proposition of God 
 in the burning clouds, 
 in the invisible web 
 of air, in the one 
 petrified vowel5 of space.
 Your only hope now 
 is to not bear false witness
 against the sea, the unknowable
 scattershot of stars.
 
          for Jon Veinberg

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1 ruminate iCwzc     
v.反刍；沉思
参考例句：
  • It is worth while to ruminate over his remarks.他的话值得玩味。
  • The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.牛吃完草后开始反刍。
2 brilliance 1svzs     
n.光辉，辉煌，壮丽，（卓越的）才华，才智
参考例句：
  • I was totally amazed by the brilliance of her paintings.她的绘画才能令我惊歎不已。
  • The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。
3 glimmers 31ee558956f925b5af287eeee5a2a321     
n.微光，闪光( glimmer的名词复数 )v.发闪光，发微光( glimmer的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
  • A faint lamp glimmers at the end of the passage. 一盏昏暗的灯在走廊尽头发出微弱的光线。 来自互联网
  • The first glimmers of an export-led revival are apparent. 拉动出库复苏的第一缕曙光正出现。 来自互联网
4 molecules 187c25e49d45ad10b2f266c1fa7a8d49     
分子( molecule的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The structure of molecules can be seen under an electron microscope. 分子的结构可在电子显微镜下观察到。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules. 在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。
5 vowel eHTyS     
n.元音；元音字母
参考例句：
  • A long vowel is a long sound as in the word"shoe ".长元音即如“shoe” 一词中的长音。
  • The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.单词my和thigh中的元音并不难发。

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