Honeymoon1
Dorianne Laux
We didn't have one, unless you count Paris,
20 years later, after we'd almost given up on the idea.
We'd imagined one, long nights beneath
a warm celestial2 sky; him growing his beard,
me in a silk turquoise3 robe, floating, billowing,
on a deserted4 beach foraging5 for whole sand dollars,
jelly fish washed up on the shore, their glittering insides
visible, still pulsing through flesh made of glass,
but it never happened. We had to work through
our vacations, refinance the house, find someone
to cut down the cedar6 that threatened to bury us
with each storm. We wanted to make up
for the wedding, or lack of one, the granite
courthouse steps, the small room with a desk,
the flimsy document stamped with a cheap gold seal.
Even then we meant to have a party on the deck, <A hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/MiNifoRm.html>蘇州中小學(xué)生作文培訓(xùn)班</a>
cheese and crackers7, fruit plates, sparkling
grape cider in plastic cups, our friends on the lawn
calling you the Big Kahuna, me Mrs. Dynamite,
me calling you my Sweet Dragon, you calling me
your little Red Corvette. Instead, time found a way
to demand each minute, until one night,
after you'd gotten a small windfall in the mail,
you turned to me and said, I'm going to take you to Paris,
me in my ratty robe and floppy8 slippers9, you
in your flannel10 pj bottoms and black wife beater,
muting the clicker when I said "What?"
and saying it again. Then we were there,
in our 60s, standing11 below the dire12 Eiffel Tower,
its 81 stories of staircases we couldn't possibly climb,
its 73 thousand tons of puddled iron, you
taking my picture for posterity13, me
kissing you beneath the pathway of arched trees,
our voices echoing against the six million skulls <a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
embedded inside the stone catacombs, me
saying, I guess you weren't kidding, you
taking my hand in the rain.
1 honeymoon
n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月
參考例句：
While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘島度蜜月時(shí)學(xué)會(huì)了帶水肺潛水。 The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.這幸福的一對(duì)就要去度蜜月了。
2 celestial
adj.天體的；天上的
參考例句：
The rosy light yet beamed like a celestial dawn.玫瑰色的紅光依然象天上的朝霞一樣絢麗。 Gravity governs the motions of celestial bodies.萬有引力控制著天體的運(yùn)動(dòng)。 <a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州閱讀寫作培訓(xùn)</a>
3 turquoise
n.綠寶石；adj.藍(lán)綠色的
參考例句：
She wore a string of turquoise round her neck.她脖子上戴著一串綠寶石。 The women have elaborate necklaces of turquoise.那些女人戴著由綠松石制成的精美項(xiàng)鏈。
4 deserted
adj.荒蕪的，荒廢的，無人的，被遺棄的
參考例句：
The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.這個(gè)荒廢的村莊死一般的寂靜。 The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敵人頭目眾叛親離。
5 foraging
v.搜尋（食物），尤指動(dòng)物 覓（食）( forage的現(xiàn)在分詞 )；（尤指用手）搜尋（東西）
參考例句：
They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他們靠在垃圾場撿垃圾維持著朝不保夕的生活。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》 The campers went foraging for wood to make a fire. 露營者去搜尋柴木點(diǎn)火。 來自辭典例句
6 cedar
n.雪松，香柏(木)
參考例句：
The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松約有五尺高,風(fēng)姿優(yōu)美。 She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把長有灰色地衣的老雪松樹枝上的雪打了下來。
7 crackers
adj.精神錯(cuò)亂的，癲狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )；薄脆餅干；（認(rèn)為）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘
參考例句：
That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪聲鬧得我簡直要瘋了。 We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我們上了些餅干和奶酪作為開胃品。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
8 floppy
adj.松軟的，衰弱的
參考例句：
She was wearing a big floppy hat.她戴了頂松軟的大帽子。 Can you copy those files onto this floppy disk?你能把那些文件復(fù)制到這張軟盤上嗎？
9 slippers
n. 拖鞋
參考例句：
a pair of slippers 一雙拖鞋 He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋，倒在床上。
10 flannel
n.法蘭絨；法蘭絨衣服
參考例句：
She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她總是穿一條灰色法蘭絨長褲。 She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿著法蘭絨裙子，看上去楚楚動(dòng)人。
11 standing
n.持續(xù)，地位；adj.永久的，不動(dòng)的，直立的，不流動(dòng)的
參考例句：
After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震過后只有幾幢房屋還立著。 They're standing out against any change in the law.他們堅(jiān)決反對(duì)對(duì)法律做任何修改。
12 dire
adj.可怕的，悲慘的，陰慘的，極端的
參考例句：
There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾經(jīng)有人就看電視太多的危害性提出嚴(yán)重警告。 We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那時(shí)我們的困難真是大極了，但是我們渡過了困難。
13 posterity
n.后裔，子孫，后代
參考例句：
Few of his works will go down to posterity.他的作品沒有幾件會(huì)流傳到后世。 The names of those who died are recorded for posterity on a tablet at the back of the church.死者姓名都刻在教堂后面的一塊石匾上以便后人銘記。
《Honeymoon》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
