Semblance: Screens

时间：2016-06-17 06:54:03

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Semblance1: Screens
Liz Waldner
 
 
A moth2 lies open and lies 
 like an old bleached3 beech4 leaf, 
 a lean-to between window frame and sill. 
 Its death protects a collection of tinier deaths 
 and other dirts beneath. 
 Although the white paint is water-stained, 
 on it death is dirt, and hapless. 
 
The just-severed tiger lily 
 is drinking its glass of water, I hope. 
 This hope is sere5. 
 This hope is severe. 
 What you ruin ruins you, too 
 and so you hope for favor. 
 I mean I do. 
 
The underside of a ladybug 
 wanders the window. I wander 
 the continent, my under-carriage not as evident, 
 so go more perilously7, it seems to me. 
 But I am only me; to you it seems clear 
 I mean to disappear, and am mean 
 and project on you my fear. 
 
If I were a bug6, I hope I wouldn't be 
 this giant winged thing, spindly like a crane fly, 
 skinny-legged like me, kissing the cold ceiling, 
 fumbling for the face of the other, seeking. 
 It came in with me last night when I turned on the light. 
 I lay awake, afraid it would touch my face. 
 It wants out. I want out, too. 
 
I thought you a way through. 
 Arms wide for wings, 
 your suffering mine, twinned. 
 Screen. Your unbelief drives me in, 
 doubt for dirt, white sheet for sill -- 
 You don't stay other enough or still 
 enough to be likened to.

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1 semblance Szcwt     
n.外貌，外表
参考例句：
  • Her semblance of anger frightened the children.她生气的样子使孩子们感到害怕。
  • Those clouds have the semblance of a large head.那些云的形状像一个巨大的人头。
2 moth a10y1     
n.蛾，蛀虫
参考例句：
  • A moth was fluttering round the lamp.有一只蛾子扑打着翅膀绕着灯飞。
  • The sweater is moth-eaten.毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了。
3 bleached b1595af54bdf754969c26ad4e6cec237     
漂白的，晒白的，颜色变浅的
参考例句：
  • His hair was bleached by the sun . 他的头发被太阳晒得发白。
  • The sun has bleached her yellow skirt. 阳光把她的黄裙子晒得褪色了。
4 beech uynzJF     
n.山毛榉；adj.山毛榉的
参考例句：
  • Autumn is the time to see the beech woods in all their glory.秋天是观赏山毛榉林的最佳时期。
  • Exasperated,he leaped the stream,and strode towards beech clump.他满腔恼怒，跳过小河，大踏步向毛榉林子走去。
5 sere Dz3w3     
adj.干枯的；n.演替系列
参考例句：
  • The desert was edged with sere vegetation.沙漠周围零星地长着一些干枯的植被。
  • A sere on uncovered rock is a lithosere.在光秃岩石上的演替系列是岩生演替系列。
6 bug 5skzf     
n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器
参考例句：
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
7 perilously 215e5a0461b19248639b63df048e2328     
adv.充满危险地，危机四伏地
参考例句：
  • They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice. 他们离悬崖边很近，十分危险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It'seemed to me that we had come perilously close to failure already. 对我来说，好像失败和我只有一步之遥，岌岌可危。 来自互联网

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