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Stoppages

after Marcel Duchamp

Patrick Brandon

A line cast over water settles on the water skin.

Salmon engage in piscine（鱼的） trigonometry（三角法）,

track the crooked¹（弯曲的） trajectory² of light.

Pouting courtiers, indifferent to our air-

blighted world, they trend to a chilled cortege（行列）,

eyeballing drifting sprigs of glamour³ -- dabbler⁴,

super-sleek, grayling nymph; and

for the single folkloric⁵（民俗的） pike -- a shimmer⁶ eel⁷.

The fabulous⁸ lured⁹ by the fantabulous.

Ignoring the trees, the sky, (each

waiting for translation), there is strategy

here, where chance and line contend.

Where was it Klee said he was taking his line?

My tutors -- dressed much as they were

thirty or more years ago -- repeat it endlessly.

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1 crooked
adj.弯曲的；不诚实的，狡猾的，不正当的
参考例句：
He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.他弯了弯手指，示意我们到他那儿去。 You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.在这些弯弯曲曲的乡间小路上你得慢慢开车。

2 trajectory
n.弹道，轨道
参考例句：
It is not difficult to sketch the subsequent trajectory.很容易描绘出它们最终的轨迹。 The path followed by a projectile is called its trajectory.抛物体所循的路径称为它的轨道。

3 glamour
n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住
参考例句：
Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。 The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

4 dabbler
n. 戏水者, 业余家, 半玩半认真做的人
参考例句：
The dabbler in knowledge chatters away; the wise man stays silent. 一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡。 He's not a dedicated musician but a dabbler. 他并不是专门的音乐家，只不过是个业余家。

5 folkloric
adj.民间传说的；民俗的
参考例句：
In the rush to go folkloric watch out for collision of cultures. 在民俗化的热潮中，要提防不同文化的冲突。 Lunch blowout beside the pool, accompanied by folkloric dancing (Vanity Fair) . 盛大的午餐在游泳池边进行，还有民族舞蹈助兴（名利场）。

6 shimmer
v./n.发微光，发闪光；微光
参考例句：
The room was dark,but there was a shimmer of moonlight at the window.屋子里很黑，但靠近窗户的地方有点微光。 Nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage.没有什么比新叶的微光更纯洁无瑕了。

7 eel
n.鳗鲡
参考例句：
He used an eel spear to catch an eel.他用一只捕鳗叉捕鳗鱼。 In Suzhou,there was a restaurant that specialized in eel noodles.苏州有一家饭馆，他们那里的招牌菜是鳗鱼面。

8 fabulous
adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的
参考例句：
We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。 This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

9 lured
吸引，引诱（lure的过去式与过去分词形式）
参考例句：
The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车，但又设法逃掉了。 Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下，继续奋力向前。

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