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Midnight Loon

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Midnight Loon¹

Arthur Sze

Burglars enter an apartment and ransack²（洗劫，遍寻） drawers;

finding neither gold nor cash, they flee,

leaving the laundry and bathroom lights on—

they have fled themselves. I catch the dipping

pitch of a motorcycle, iceberg³ hues⁴ in clouds;

the gravel⁵ courtyard's a midnight garden,

as in Japan, raked to resemble ocean waves

in moonlight, whirlpool（漩涡） eddies⁶, circular ripples—

and nothing is quite what it appears to be.

When I unlatch（拉开插栓） the screen door, a snake

slides under the weathered decking; I spot

the jagged hole edged with glass where a burglar（夜贼，窃贼）

reached through the window, but no one

marks the poplars darker with thunder and rain.

In moonlight I watch the whirlpool hues

of clouds drift over our courtyard, adobe⁷ walls,

and gate, and, though there is no loon（潜鸟，懒人）,

a loon calls out over the yard, over the water.

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1 loon
n.狂人
参考例句：
That guy's a real loon.那个人是个真正的疯子。 Everyone thought he was a loon.每个人都骂他神经。

2 ransack
v.彻底搜索，洗劫
参考例句：
He began to ransack his mother's workbox for a piece of thread.他要找一根线,开始翻腾妈妈的针线盒。 She ransack my apartment for the bankbook.她在我公寓里到处搜索寻找存折。

3 iceberg
n.冰山，流冰，冷冰冰的人
参考例句：
The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。 The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。

4 hues
色彩( hue的名词复数 )；色调；信仰；观点
参考例句：
When the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it. 太阳一出，更把它映得千变万化、异彩缤纷。 Where maple trees grow, the leaves are often several brilliant hues of red. 在枫树生长的地方，枫叶常常呈现出数种光彩夺目的红色。

5 gravel
n.砂跞；砂砾层；结石
参考例句：
We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。 More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。

6 eddies
（水、烟等的）漩涡，涡流( eddy的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Viscosity overwhelms the smallest eddies and converts their energy into heat. 粘性制服了最小的旋涡而将其能量转换为热。 But their work appears to merge in the study of large eddies. 但在大旋涡的研究上，他们的工作看来却殊途同归。

7 adobe
n.泥砖，土坯，美国Adobe公司
参考例句：
They live in an adobe house.他们住在一间土坯屋里。 Adobe bricks must drived dried completely before are used.土坯砖块使用前一定要完全干燥。