I Walk from Steeple to Steeple
Regan Good
You diagram promises by your advancements
but leave bad things behind -- germy wing.
(World like a large drum beaten by soft things.)
I've spun1 unlike the lilies without proper goals,
toiled in wrong ways, it was the wrong difficulty
I sought.
Stunning the newborn things, all
these babies baking in their brains or playing
in the fronds2 in their throes --
The steeples were needle-like in their insistence
that the answer was always up, yet, with gusto
one walks the paved streets under the boiling sun --
(We live in the world with the bird and the whale.)
Despite the hemlock3 on the hill; despite the crow --
I watched the movement of the birds exact diligence
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of no consequence but description,
heavenly description, of things fluted4 and feathered,
things flying liquid and high.
They cleave5 and cluster,
break then roll, corrosive6 mites7 infesting8 underwings,
their stained skin hidden from the whorl in my eye.
Behind my back -- the hooded9 rill of woods.
(Sun gavels the clouds; rain pounds the underdrum.)
Birds are the lilies. The will is the sickle10. Birdsong
over the Willsong, one whistles loudly on the bluestone,
especially through long rains, though most hotly in the sun.
One wears it as a crown -- the sun and its wreathing song.
(We are as in a big drum, cold, pale spring, the increments11 of an underwing.)
Above, birds flying in circles and common-seeming serpentines12.
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1 spun
v.紡，杜撰，急轉(zhuǎn)身
參考例句：
His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火爐邊給他講故事。 Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那靈巧的手指把羊毛紡成了細毛線。
2 fronds
n.蕨類或棕櫚類植物的葉子( frond的名詞復數(shù) )
參考例句：
You can pleat palm fronds to make huts, umbrellas and baskets. 人們可以把棕櫚葉折疊起來蓋棚屋，制傘，編籃子。 來自百科語句 When these breezes reached the platform the palm-fronds would whisper. 微風吹到平臺時，棕櫚葉片發(fā)出簌簌的低吟。 來自辭典例句
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3 hemlock
n.毒胡蘿卜，鐵杉
參考例句：
He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock.判處他喝一杯毒汁。 Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock,with three pines at hand.這兒有株山毛櫸和一株鐵杉長在一起，旁邊還有三株松樹。
4 fluted
a.有凹槽的
參考例句：
The Taylor house is that white one with the tall fluted column on Polyock Street. 泰勒家的住宅在波洛克街上，就是那幢有高大的雕花柱子的白色屋子。 Single chimera light pink two-tone fluted star. Plain, pointed. Large. 單瓣深淺不一的亮粉紅色星形縞花，花瓣端有凹痕。平坦尖型葉。大型。
5 cleave
v．(clave；cleaved)粘著，粘住；堅持；依戀
參考例句：
It examines how the decision to quit gold or to cleave to it affected trade policies.論文分析了放棄或堅持金本位是如何影響貿(mào)易政策的。 Those who cleave to the latter view include many conservative American politicians.堅持后一種觀點的大多是美國的保守派政客。
6 corrosive
adj.腐蝕性的；有害的；惡毒的
參考例句：
Many highly corrosive substances are used in the nuclear industry.核工業(yè)使用許多腐蝕性很強的物質(zhì)。 Many highly corrosive substances are used in the nuclear industry.核工業(yè)使用許多腐蝕性很強的物質(zhì)。
7 mites
n.（尤指令人憐憫的）小孩( mite的名詞復數(shù) )；一點點；一文錢；螨
參考例句：
The only discovered animals are water bears, mites, microscopic rotifers. 能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)的動物 只有海蜘蛛、螨和微小的輪蟲。 來自辭典例句 Mites are frequently found on eggs. 螨會經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)在蛋上。 來自辭典例句
8 infesting
v.害蟲、野獸大批出沒于( infest的現(xiàn)在分詞 )；遍布于
參考例句：
Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities. 市中心充斥著犯罪與毒品。 來自辭典例句 They are mainly forest scavengers infesting damp, rotted wood. 它們主要是些森林食腐動物，多侵害潮濕腐朽的木材。 來自辭典例句
9 hooded
adj.戴頭巾的；有罩蓋的；頸部因肋骨運動而膨脹的
參考例句：
A hooded figure waited in the doorway. 一個戴兜帽的人在門口等候。 Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes. 黑眼睛的吉卜賽姑娘，用華麗的手巾包著頭，突然地闖了進來替人算命。 來自辭典例句
10 sickle
n.鐮刀
參考例句：
The gardener was swishing off the tops of weeds with a sickle.園丁正在用鐮刀嗖嗖地割掉雜草的頂端。 There is a picture of the sickle on the flag. 旗幟上有鐮刀的圖案。
11 increments
n.增長( increment的名詞復數(shù) )；增量；增額；定期的加薪
參考例句：
These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 將各種藥粒進行混和，裝在5．56毫米的彈殼中。 來自辭典例句 The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 蘭氏溫標的溫度間距與華氏溫標的相同。 來自辭典例句
12 serpentines
n.像蛇般蜷曲的，蜿蜒的( serpentine的名詞復數(shù) )v.像蛇般蜷曲的，蜿蜒的( serpentine的第三人稱單數(shù) )
參考例句：
These fearsome beasts have small cannons, comparable to serpentines, mounted on their backs. 這些恐怖巨獸背負著類似蛇炮的小型加農(nóng)炮。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng) The Serpentine: Serpentines make excellent exercises for suppling the sides on the horse. 蛇形型路線，是很好的練習，幫助馬匹柔軟。 來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
《I Walk from Steeple to Steeple》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
