Theories of Time and Space
分类: 英语诗歌
by Natasha Trethewey
You can get there from here, though there's no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.
Try this:head south on Mississippi 49,
one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life.
Follow this to its natural conclusion - dead end at the coast,
the pier at Gulfport where riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches
in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach,
26 miles of sand dumped on a mangrove swamp - buried terrain of the past.
Bring only what you must carry - tome of memory its random blank pages.
On the dock where you board the boat for Ship Island,
someone will take your picture:the photograph - who you were - will be waiting when you return