英文诗词:cutting greens

莉落

英文诗词:cutting greens

  by Lucille Clifton

  curling them around

  i hold their bodies in obscene embrace

  thinking of everything but kinship.

  collards and kale

  strain against each strange other

  away from my kissmaking hand and

  the iron bedpot.

  the pot is black.

  the cutting board is black,

  my hand,

  and just for a minute

  the greens roll black under the knife,

  and the kitchen twists dark on its spine

  and i taste in my natural appetite

  the bond of live things everywhere.