Cheyenne

时间：2013-10-11 06:07:04

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Cheyenne
Rachel Jamison Webster
 
 
I went down and down. 
 I swam beside the boat, 
 near its sucking wake and tall 
 dangerous sides. I pulled 
 through water hung with mud and slick（光滑的） 
 shale-stumbled banks running up to trees 
 and scattered1 logs bleached2 white by the sun. 
 The way I loved seemed to be confounding（混淆，困惑） 
 everyone. I was not alone, 
 I had a friend I did not need language 
 with as we paddled side by side. 
 I was not shopping, scanning 
 the horizon for what would be a better life 
 but beside that ship of people 
 being ferried safe within their deaths. 
 We would all arrive at the same time, 
 but me by my own rhyming muscle. 
 I swam until the water grew warm 
 as a body around my body, until I was 
 in a liquid I had been before, I opened 
 my eyes against the current 
 and the stripping weeds, dragged myself 
 ever deeper into the strands3 of the past, 
 back to the riversplit where it all began 
 and scrambled4 out at last onto land 
 tingling with bramble（荆棘，树莓） and branch. 
 And you were there, and we were 
 strong-limbed and browning, and back.

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1 scattered 7jgzKF     
adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的
参考例句：
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
2 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。
3 strands d184598ceee8e1af7dbf43b53087d58b     
n.（线、绳、金属线、毛发等的）股( strand的名词复数 )；缕；海洋、湖或河的)岸；（观点、计划、故事等的）部份v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
  • Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp. 用几股麻搓成了一段绳子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She laced strands into a braid. 她把几股线编织成一根穗带。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 scrambled 2e4a1c533c25a82f8e80e696225a73f2     
v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞
参考例句：
  • Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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