The Routine Things Around the House
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   by Stephen Dunn

    When Mother died

    I thought: now I'll have a death poem.

    That was unforgivable

    yet I've since forgiven myself

    as sons are able to do

    who've been loved by their mothers.

    I stared into the coffin1

    knowing how long she'd live,

    how many lifetimes there are

    in the sweet revisions of memory.

    It's hard to know exactly

    how we ease ourselves back from sadness,

    but I remembered when I was twelve,

    1951, before the world

    unbuttoned its blouse.

    I had asked my mother (I was trembling)

    if I could see her breasts

    and she took me into her room

    without embarrassment2 or coyness

    and I stared at them,

    afraid to ask for more.

    Now, years later, someone tells me

    Cancers who've never had mother love

    are doomed4 and I, a Cancer,

    feel blessed again. What luck

    to have had a mother

    who showed me her breasts

    when girls my age were developing

    their separated countries,

    what luck

    she didn't doom3 me

    with too much or too little.

    Had I asked to touch,

    perhaps to suck them,

    what would she have done?

    Mother, dead woman

    who I think permits me

    to love women easily,

    this poem

    is dedicated5 to where

    we stopped, to the incompleteness

    that was sufficient

    and to how you buttoned up,

    began doing the routine things

    around the house.



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1 coffin XWRy7     
n.棺材,灵柩
参考例句:
  • When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
  • The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。
2 embarrassment fj9z8     
n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
参考例句:
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
3 doom gsexJ     
n.厄运,劫数;v.注定,命定
参考例句:
  • The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
  • The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。
4 doomed EuuzC1     
命定的
参考例句:
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
5 dedicated duHzy2     
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
参考例句:
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
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