First Words
Phillip B. Williams
A storm and so a gift.
Its swift approach
lifts gravel1 from the road.
A fence is flattened2 in
the course of the storm's
worse attempt at language --
thunder's umbrage3. A tree
is torn apart,
blown upward through a bedroom
window. A boy winnows
through the pile
of shards4 for the sharpest parts
from the blown-apart
glass. He has
a bag that holds found edges
jagged as a stag's
horns or smooth as
a single pane5 smashed into
smaller panes6 that he sticks
his hand inside
to make blood web across
his acheless skin flexing
like fish gills
O-lipped for a scream
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they cannot make.
He wants to feel
what his friends have felt,
the slant7 of fear on their faces
he could never
recreate, his body born
without pain. When his skin's
pouting8 welts
don't rake a whimper
from his mouth, he runs
outside, arms up
for the storm, aluminum
baseball bat held out
to the sky
until lightning, with an electric
tongue, makes his viscera
luminescent;
the boy's first word for pain
is the light's
new word for home.
1 gravel
n.砂躒；砂礫層；結石
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We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我們購買了六袋碎石用來鋪花園的小路。 More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的礫石來填平車道上的坑洼。
2 flattened
[醫(yī)]（水）平扁的，弄平的
參考例句：
She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇緊貼著窗戶。 I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身體緊靠著墻讓他們通過。
3 umbrage
n.不快；樹蔭
參考例句：
Everything gives umbrage to a tyrantny.所有事情都使專制君主生氣。 She took umbrage at my remarks about her hair.我對她頭發(fā)的評論使她很不高興。 <a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNifoRm.Html>蘇州初中語文補習</a>
4 shards
n.（玻璃、金屬或其他硬物的）尖利的碎片( shard的名詞復數(shù) )
參考例句：
Eyewitnesses spoke of rocks and shards of glass flying in the air. 目擊者稱空中石塊和玻璃碎片四濺。 來自辭典例句 Ward, Josh Billings, and a host of others have survived only in scattered shards of humour. 沃德、比林斯和許多別的作家能夠留傳下來的只是些幽默的殘章斷簡。 來自辭典例句
5 pane
n.窗格玻璃，長方塊
參考例句：
He broke this pane of glass.他打破了這塊窗玻璃。 Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.他們呼出的水氣，在冰冷的窗玻璃上形成一層霧。
6 panes
窗玻璃( pane的名詞復數(shù) )
參考例句：
The sun caught the panes and flashed back at him. 陽光照到窗玻璃上，又反射到他身上。 The window-panes are dim with steam. 玻璃窗上蒙上了一層蒸汽。
7 slant
v.傾斜，傾向性地編寫或報道；n.斜面，傾向
參考例句：
The lines are drawn on a slant.這些線條被畫成斜線。 The editorial had an antiunion slant.這篇社論有一種反工會的傾向。
8 pouting
v.撅（嘴）( pout的現(xiàn)在分詞 )
參考例句：
The child sat there pouting. 那孩子坐在那兒，一副不高興的樣子。 來自辭典例句 She was almost pouting at his hesitation. 她幾乎要為他這種猶猶豫豫的態(tài)度不高興了。 來自辭典例句
《First Words》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
