Likea Blind Child英文诗词

刘莉莉

Likea Blind Child英文诗词

  Aliceat Seventeen:Likea Blind Child

  One summer afternoon, I learned my body

  like a blind child leaving a walled

  school for the first time, stumbling

  from cool hallways to a world

  dense with scent and sound,

  pines roaring in the sudden wind

  like a huge chorus of insects.

  I felt the damp socket of flowers,

  touched weeds riding the crest

  of a stony ridge, and the scrubby

  ground cover on low hills.

  Haystacks began to burn,

  smoke rose like sheets of

  translucent mica. The thick air

  hummed over the stretched wires

  of wheat as I lay in the overgrown field

  listening to the shrieks of small rabbits

  bounding beneath my skin.