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In Memoriam Mae Noblitt

分类: 英语诗歌 
 by A. R. Ammons

    This is just a place:

    we go around, distanced,

    yearly in a star's

    atmosphere, turning

    daily into and out of

    direct light and

    slanting through the

    quadrant seasons: deep

    space begins at our

    heels, nearly rousing

    us loose: we look up

    or out so high, sight's

    silk almost draws us away:

    this is just a place:

    currents worry themselves

    coiled and free in airs

    and oceans: water picks

    up mineral shadow and

    plasm into billions of

    designs, frames: trees,

    grains, bacteria: but

    is love a reality we

    made here ourselves——

    and grief——did we design

    that——or do these,

    like currents, whine

    in and out among us merely

    as we arrive and go:

    this is just a place:

    the reality we agree with,

    that agrees with us,

    outbounding this, arrives

    to touch, joining with

    us from far away:

    our home which defines

    us is elsewhere but not

    so far away we have

    forgotten it:

    this is just a place.

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