Low Tide

时间：2014-11-24 06:01:31

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Low Tide
Alan Shapiro
 
 
On the mud flats
 where I’m walking
 each step pushes the wet
 out from beneath it
 to a dry halo
 
of a heel and toe
 which as I lift it
 dampens to
 a trail of pools
 behind me as I walk -- 
 
I make them all
 along the flats and
 when I circle back
 they flash like lakes
 seen from a plane
 
my body could be
 the shadow of, inching
 across the continent
 down below, inside
 of which invisibly1
 
between the sand grains
 in the infinitesimal
 capillary spaces
 closing and opening
 under my steps are
 
creatures too small
 to see or name
 for whom each grain’s
 another land mass,
 a different continent,
 
which makes the water
 rushing in as my foot lifts
 another ocean rushing out
 as my foot falls,
 so that wherever I go
 
quakes and floods,
 subductions and extinctions
 on a scale too
 miniscule to register2
 go with me -- over
 
the mudflats happy
 and thoughtless3 like
 a leper without his bell,
 wandering the world
 meaning no harm.

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1 invisibly 3c079a1d3f2b3ce58073df94121ca213     
adv.看不见地，无形地；无形中
参考例句：
  • He had learnt how to melt invisibly into the background. 他已经学会如何退居幕后。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • "Where's the torn place?""It's been invisibly mended.” “哪儿破了？”“天衣无缝，补好了。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 register YSVzM     
n.登记簿，花名册，注册员；v.登记，注册
参考例句：
  • Please list your name in the attendance register.请在点名册上登记你的名字。
  • He was looking over a hotel register.他正在仔细检查旅馆住宿登记表。
3 thoughtless Xoswf     
adj.没有考虑的，无深虑的，轻率的
参考例句：
  • It was thoughtless of you to forget your sister's birthday.你真粗心，把你姐姐的生日都给忘了。
  • I wonder why you are so thoughtless of others.我很奇怪，你为何如此不替别人着想。

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