Silverswords-英文诗词

马振华

Silverswords-英文诗词

  Silverswords

  by Juliet S. Kono

  At cold daybreak

  we wind

  up the mountainside

  to Haleakala Crater.

  Our hands knot

  under the rough of

  your old army blanket.

  We pass protea

  and carnation farms

  in Kula,

  drive through

  desolate rockfields.

  Upon this one place

  on Earth,

  from the ancient

  lava rivers,

  silverswords rise,

  startled

  into starbursts

  by the sun.

  Like love, sometimes,

  they die

  at their first

  and rare flowering.