My Psychic_经典赏析_英文阅读网

My Psychic

文章来源：文章作者：发布时间：2007-04-16 06:06 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

by James Kimbrell

has a giant hand diagrammed in front of her place

on West Tennessee.

It towers above a kudzu hill as if

to offer a cosmic How！

as in Hello！ from a long

way off， as in how

she already knows

the sundry¹ screwed up ways a day

can go days before

I park my wreck² on the hill again beside

her white Mercedes.

O little slice of Lebanon！

O cedar³ scented⁴

cards fanned like feathers

of a Byzantine peacock！

Tell me again how I might have been a fine lawyer，

that I'll raise four kids in Tallahassee，

how I married-it's true-on my lunch break-Yez

she took you to lunch okay a zeven year lunch ha ha！

Incense⁵. Mini-shrine.

A wagon⁶ train of chihuahuas snoozing by her slippers⁷.

You have anxious about a furniture… I do.

But lately I've grown cold，

unconsoled by her extrasensory view.

I think no need to speak-across

the black tabletop， I don't want to know

if I'll find a bright city，

a room by the river， a love

I will recognize

by her dragonfly

tattoo⁸. O narrative⁹ of ether！

O non-refundable

life facts！ say that what happens may not matter，

or that it matters as any

story does when two fresh lovers

embrace the old pact¹⁰

（her bra on the chair，

his socks in the kitchen） that says

their love is level，

unfabled， new. Level with me，

tell me why the dogs on the floor，

little moon fed hounds of Delphi， seem so over it，

so done with the fleas¹¹ of destiny.

Maybe that's the right attitude，

no need to ask why I'm here on a perfectly¹² blue Friday，

content with what the thin air，

what the dust motes¹³ in the light say near the high window.

I should've learned that music long ago

O soundless number！

O jukebox of being that the dogs dream to！

No faux crystal ball，

no tea leaves or terrace in the nether¹⁴

reaches of my palm

will make her answers

less like hocus pocus in a purchased dark.

It's time to pay， to drive away

from telepathic altitudes， to say adieu

to why love ends. How

How a heart opens again.

Why anything is true.

点击

收听单词发音

1 sundry
adj.各式各样的，种种的
参考例句：
This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤。 We can see the rich man on sundry occasions.我们能在各种场合见到那个富豪。

2 wreck
n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难
参考例句：
Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。 No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

3 cedar
n.雪松，香柏(木)
参考例句：
The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。 She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。

4 scented
adj.有香味的；洒香水的；有气味的v.嗅到(scent的过去分词)
参考例句：
I let my lungs fill with the scented air. 我呼吸着芬芳的空气。来自《简明英汉词典》 The police dog scented about till he found the trail. 警犬嗅来嗅去，终于找到了踪迹。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 incense
v.激怒；n.香，焚香时的烟，香气
参考例句：
This proposal will incense conservation campaigners.这项提议会激怒环保人士。 In summer,they usually burn some coil incense to keep away the mosquitoes.夏天他们通常点香驱蚊。

6 wagon
n.四轮马车，手推车，面包车；无盖运货列车
参考例句：
We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。 The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。

7 slippers
n. 拖鞋
参考例句：
a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋 He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋，倒在床上。

8 tattoo
n.纹身，(皮肤上的)刺花纹；vt.刺花纹于
参考例句：
I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。 He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。

9 narrative
n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的
参考例句：
He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。 Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。

10 pact
n.合同，条约，公约，协定
参考例句：
The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。 The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。

11 fleas
n.跳蚤( flea的名词复数 )；爱财如命；没好气地（拒绝某人的要求）
参考例句：
The dog has fleas. 这条狗有跳蚤。 Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. 除非要捉跳蚤，做事不可匆忙。来自《简明英汉词典》

12 perfectly
adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
参考例句：
The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。 Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

13 motes
n.尘埃( mote的名词复数 )；斑点
参考例句：
In those warm beams the motes kept dancing up and down. 只见温暖的光芒里面，微细的灰尘在上下飞扬。来自辞典例句 So I decided to take lots of grammar motes in every class. 因此我决定每堂课多做些语法笔记。来自互联网

14 nether
adj.下部的，下面的；n.阴间；下层社会
参考例句：
This terracotta army well represents his ambition yet to be realized in the nether-world.这一批兵马俑很可能代表他死后也要去实现的雄心。 He was escorted back to the nether regions of Main Street.他被护送回中央大道南面的地方。

上一篇：My Sin 下一篇：Lady Lazarus