men, women and ghosts(男人、女人和鬼魂)-第30部分
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walks; Contorted; horrible; Without curves。 A horse steps in a puddle; And
white; glaring water spurts up In stiff; outflaring lines; Like the rattling
stems of reeds。 The city is heraldic with angles; A sombre escutcheon of
argent and sable And countercoloured bends of rain Hung over a four…
square civilization。 When a street lamp comes out; I gaze at it for fully
thirty seconds To rest my brain with the suffusing; round brilliance of its
globe。
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An Aquarium
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence; Silver shiftings; Rings
veering out of rings; Silver gold Grey…green opaqueness sliding down;
With sharp white bubbles Shooting and dancing; Flinging quickly outward。
Nosing the bubbles; Swallowing them; Fish。 Blue shadows against silver…
saffron water; The light rippling over them In steel…bright tremors。
Outspread translucent fins Flute; fold; and relapse; The threaded light
prints through them on the pebbles In scarcely tarnished twinklings。
Curving of spotted spines; Slow up…shifts; Lazy convolutions: Then a
sudden swift straightening And darting below: Oblique grey shadows
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Men; Women and Ghosts
Athwart a pale casement。 Roped and curled; Green man…eating eels
Slumber in undulate rhythms; With crests laid horizontal on their backs。
Barred fish; Striped fish; Uneven disks of fish; Slip; slide; whirl; turn; And
never touch。 Metallic blue fish; With fins wide and yellow and swaying
Like Oriental fans; Hold the sun in their bellies And glow with light: Blue
brilliance cut by black bars。 An oblong pane of straw…coloured shimmer;
Across it; in a tangent; A smear of rose; black; silver。 Short twists and
upstartings; Rose…black; in a setting of bubbles: Sunshine playing between
red and black flowers On a blue and gold lawn。 Shadows and polished
surfaces; Facets of mauve and purple; A constant modulation of values。
Shaft…shaped; With green bead eyes; Thick…nosed; Heliotrope…coloured;
Swift spots of chrysolite and coral; In the midst of green; pearl; amethyst
irradiations。
Outside; A willow…tree flickers With little white jerks; And long blue
waves Rise steadily beyond the outer islands。
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