Semblance1: Screens
Liz Waldner
A moth2 lies open and lies
like an old bleached3 beech4 leaf,
a lean-to between window frame and sill.
Its death protects a collection of tinier deaths
and other dirts beneath.
Although the white paint is water-stained,
on it death is dirt, and hapless.
The just-severed tiger lily
is drinking its glass of water, I hope.
This hope is sere5.
This hope is severe.
What you ruin ruins you, too
and so you hope for favor.
I mean I do.
The underside of a ladybug
wanders the window. I wander
the continent, my under-carriage not as evident,
so go more perilously7, it seems to me.
But I am only me; to you it seems clear
I mean to disappear, and am mean
and project on you my fear.
If I were a bug6, I hope I wouldn't be <a href=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州初中作文閱讀培訓(xùn)</a>
this giant winged thing, spindly like a crane fly,
skinny-legged like me, kissing the cold ceiling,
fumbling for the face of the other, seeking.
It came in with me last night when I turned on the light.
I lay awake, afraid it would touch my face.
It wants out. I want out, too.
I thought you a way through.
Arms wide for wings,
your suffering mine, twinned.
Screen. Your unbelief drives me in,
doubt for dirt, white sheet for sill --
You don't stay other enough or still
enough to be likened to.
1 semblance
n.外貌，外表
參考例句：
Her semblance of anger frightened the children.她生氣的樣子使孩子們感到害怕。 Those clouds have the semblance of a large head.那些云的形狀像一個(gè)巨大的人頭。 <a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNifoRm.Html>蘇州初中語(yǔ)文補(bǔ)習(xí)</a>
2 moth
n.蛾，蛀蟲
參考例句：
A moth was fluttering round the lamp.有一只蛾子撲打著翅膀繞著燈飛。 The sweater is moth-eaten.毛衣讓蛀蟲咬壞了。
3 bleached
漂白的，曬白的，顏色變淺的
參考例句：
His hair was bleached by the sun . 他的頭發(fā)被太陽(yáng)曬得發(fā)白。 The sun has bleached her yellow skirt. 陽(yáng)光把她的黃裙子曬得褪色了。
4 beech
n.山毛櫸；adj.山毛櫸的
參考例句：
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Autumn is the time to see the beech woods in all their glory.秋天是觀賞山毛櫸林的最佳時(shí)期。 Exasperated,he leaped the stream,and strode towards beech clump.他滿腔惱怒，跳過小河，大踏步向毛櫸林子走去。
5 sere
adj.干枯的；n.演替系列
參考例句：
The desert was edged with sere vegetation.沙漠周圍零星地長(zhǎng)著一些干枯的植被。 A sere on uncovered rock is a lithosere.在光禿巖石上的演替系列是巖生演替系列。
6 bug
n.蟲子；故障；竊聽器；vt.糾纏；裝竊聽器
參考例句：
There is a bug in the system.系統(tǒng)出了故障。 The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鳥在飛行中捉住了一只昆蟲。
7 perilously
adv.充滿危險(xiǎn)地，危機(jī)四伏地
參考例句：
They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice. 他們離懸崖邊很近，十分危險(xiǎn)。 來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》 It'seemed to me that we had come perilously close to failure already. 對(duì)我來說，好像失敗和我只有一步之遙，岌岌可危。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
《Semblance: Screens》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
