under the wet of late September
the ash tree flails,
our dog is tearing earth beside the house.
In rising ditches the fern subsides.
Rain-logged berries and stones
are rained upon, acorns
shine from grassy verges every morning.
And it's nearly over,
our four years in the hedge-school.
If nobody is going to resin a bow
and test the grieving registers for joy
we might as well put on our old record
of John Field's Nocturnes –
his gifts, waste, solitude, reputation, laughter,
all 'Dead in Moscow',
all those gallons of wash for the pure drop,
notes 'like raindrops, pearls on velvet.'
Remember our American wake?
When we first got footloose
they lifted the roof for us in Belfast,
Hammond, Gunn and McAloon
in full cry till the dawn chorus,
insouciant and purposeful.
Gusts, barking, power-lines shaken
and the music wavering. Inside and out,
babes-in-the-wood weather. We toe the line
between the tree in leaf and the bare tree.
聚合中文网 阅读好时光 www.juhezwn.com
小提示:漏章、缺章、错字过多试试导航栏右上角的源