What I Wanted
Tracey Herd1
was such a plump, bountiful
landscape of snow, more
than I'd ever dared wish for.
That was back when we had
proper winters, long ago,
when lawns and driveways
vanished: there were
no boundaries. Fences, walls,
gardens and homes dropped off
the edge of the world.
There was a muffled
silence each night when
darkness married with snow
to wake me from dreams
that began and ended
with the snow. I was hidden
from view behind a tree
whose branches were
perilously bent2 and laden
with snow, watching
a dark figure disappear;
then I would slip out fearlessly,
sure-footed and fleet,
with my magnifying glass
and pocket torch to follow
the tracks that led off as far
as a child's eye could see,
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and then a little further.
1 herd
n.獸群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…趕在一起
參考例句：
She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她趕著牛群穿過荒野。 He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他從無主見，只是人云亦云。
2 bent
n.愛好，癖好；adj.彎的；決心的，一心的
參考例句：
He was fully bent upon the project.他一心撲在這項(xiàng)計(jì)劃上。 We bent over backward to help them.我們盡了最大努力幫助他們。
《What I Wanted》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
