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Cheyenne

Rachel Jamison Webster

I went down and down.

I swam beside the boat,

near its sucking wake and tall

dangerous sides. I pulled

through water hung with mud and slick（光滑的）

shale-stumbled banks running up to trees

and scattered¹ logs bleached² white by the sun.

The way I loved seemed to be confounding（混淆，困惑）

everyone. I was not alone,

I had a friend I did not need language

with as we paddled side by side.

I was not shopping, scanning

the horizon for what would be a better life

but beside that ship of people

being ferried safe within their deaths.

We would all arrive at the same time,

but me by my own rhyming muscle.

I swam until the water grew warm

as a body around my body, until I was

in a liquid I had been before, I opened

my eyes against the current

and the stripping weeds, dragged myself

ever deeper into the strands³ of the past,

back to the riversplit where it all began

and scrambled⁴ out at last onto land

tingling with bramble（荆棘，树莓） and branch.

And you were there, and we were

strong-limbed and browning, and back.

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1 scattered
adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的
参考例句：
Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

2 bleached
漂白的，晒白的，颜色变浅的
参考例句：
His hair was bleached by the sun . 他的头发被太阳晒得发白。 The sun has bleached her yellow skirt. 阳光把她的黄裙子晒得褪色了。

3 strands
n.（线、绳、金属线、毛发等的）股( strand的名词复数 )；缕；海洋、湖或河的)岸；（观点、计划、故事等的）部份v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp. 用几股麻搓成了一段绳子。来自《简明英汉词典》 She laced strands into a braid. 她把几股线编织成一根穗带。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 scrambled
v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞
参考例句：
Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。来自《简明英汉词典》

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