The Pomegranate
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  by Eavan Boland

    The only legend I have ever loved is

    the story of a daughter lost in hell.

    And found and rescued there.

    Love and blackmail1 are the gist2 of it.

    Ceres and Persephone the names.

    And the best thing about the legend is

    I can enter it anywhere.  And have.

    As a child in exile in

    a city of fogs and strange consonants3

    I read it first and at first I was

    an exiled child in the crackling dusk of

    the underworld, the stars blighted4.  Later

    I walked out in a summer twilight5

    searching for my daughter at bed-time.

    When she came running I was ready

    to make any bargain to keep her.

    I carried her back past whitebeams

    and wasps6 and honey-scented buddleias.

    But I was Ceres then and I knew

    winter was in store for every leaf

    on every tree on that road.

    Was inescapable for each one we passed.

    And for me.

    It is winter

    and the stars are hidden.

    I climb the stairs and stand where I can see

    my child asleep beside her teen magazines,

    her can of Coke, her plate of uncut fruit.

    The pomegranate!  How did I forget it?

    She could have come home and been safe

    and ended the story and all

    our heart-broken searching but she reached

    out a hand and plucked a pomegranate.

    She put out her hand and pulled down

    the French sound for apple and

    the noise of stone and the proof

    that even in the place of death,

    at the heart of legend, in the midst

    of rocks full of unshed tears

    ready to be diamonds by the time

    the story was told, a child can be

    hungry.  I could warn her.  There is still a chance.

    The rain is cold.  The road is flint-coloured.

    The suburb has cars and cable television.

    The veiled stars are above ground.

    It is another world.  But what else

    can a mother give her daughter but such

    beautiful rifts7 in time?

    If I defer8 the grief I will diminish the gift.

    The legend will be hers as well as mine.

    She will enter it.  As I have.

    She will wake up.  She will hold

    the papery flushed skin in her hand.

    And to her lips.  I will say nothing.



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1 blackmail rRXyl     
n.讹诈,敲诈,勒索,胁迫,恫吓
参考例句:
  • She demanded $1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
  • The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。
2 gist y6ayC     
n.要旨;梗概
参考例句:
  • Can you give me the gist of this report?你能告诉我这个报告的要点吗?
  • He is quick in grasping the gist of a book.他敏于了解书的要点。
3 consonants 6d7406e22bce454935f32e3837012573     
n.辅音,子音( consonant的名词复数 );辅音字母
参考例句:
  • Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants. 辅音往往被其邻近的辅音同化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 blighted zxQzsD     
adj.枯萎的,摧毁的
参考例句:
  • Blighted stems often canker.有病的茎往往溃烂。
  • She threw away a blighted rose.她把枯萎的玫瑰花扔掉了。
5 twilight gKizf     
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
参考例句:
  • Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
  • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
6 wasps fb5b4ba79c574cee74f48a72a48c03ef     
黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 ); 胡蜂; 易动怒的人; 刻毒的人
参考例句:
  • There's a wasps' nest in that old tree. 那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
  • We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. 我们不仅生活在对象蜘蛛或黄蜂这样的小虫的惧怕中,而且生活在对诸如飞蛾这样无害昆虫的惧怕中
7 rifts 7dd59953b3c57f1d1ab39d9082c70f92     
n.裂缝( rift的名词复数 );裂隙;分裂;不和
参考例句:
  • After that, through the rifts in the inky clouds sparkled redder and yet more luminous particles. 然后在几条墨蓝色云霞的隙缝里闪出几个更红更亮的小片。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
  • The Destinies mend rifts in time as man etches fate. 当人类想要再次亵渎命运的时候,命运及时修正了这些裂痕。 来自互联网
8 defer KnYzZ     
vt.推迟,拖延;vi.(to)遵从,听从,服从
参考例句:
  • We wish to defer our decision until next week.我们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
  • We will defer to whatever the committee decides.我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。
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