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This Work

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by Martha Zweig

The cold orange hands of the salamanders still wrap¹

and unwrap the baby he dreams he was

then long before there was any human family.

Then their work was just beginning on the

He had to be as little strange as possible.

They were making the world & working on him too.

He was warmer but less strange than a moss³ or a stone was，

that saved him.

The moss worked on the stone too.

The stone worked on him like a mind

he had to grow up to talk to or

dream to but without turning strange.

The cold hands run over him.

They read the body he dreams of as a baby's to the stone.

Before there was any human family the work

that make him was this work just beginning.

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1 wrap
n.外套，围巾，包裹，限制，约束，秘密；vt.包装，卷，缠绕，包，裹，覆盖，遮蔽，隐藏
参考例句：
You'd better wrap it with a piece of clean cloth.你最好用一块干净的布把它包起来。 You can wrap the skirt around your waist.你可以把裙子围在腰间。

2 damp
n.湿气；adj.潮湿的
参考例句：
It's damp and cold,I think it's going to rain.空气又冷又潮，我看是要下雨了。 If you put on damp clothes,you will probably catch cold.穿湿衣服，你会着凉的。

3 moss
n.苔，藓，地衣
参考例句：
Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。 He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。

4 mosses
n. 藓类, 苔藓植物名词moss的复数形式
参考例句：
Ferns, mosses and fungi spread by means of spores. 蕨类植物、苔藓和真菌通过孢子传播蔓生。 The only plants to be found in Antarctica are algae, mosses, and lichens. 在南极洲所发现的植物只有藻类、苔藓和地衣。