文章基本信息

标题：Inventory.
作者：Irwin, Mark
期刊名称：Witness
印刷版ISSN：0891-1371
出版年度：2009
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Witness

摘要：

 Inventory     I thought of recording their voices, tic-tock,    but did not. Now they have flown from their bodies.     There goes the bus of tomorrow toward which we can    no longer run and wave, so we sit and teach     ourselves how to speak without sounds. We sit    by our animals and stare into their eyes     like vowels. We sit among our little piles of objects    next to windows, but no one comes, so we push our faces     against the orange glass and listen, listen, listen    till the trees stuff red cotton into our ears.

Inventory.

Irwin, Mark

Inventory

   I thought of recording their voices, tic-tock,
   but did not. Now they have flown from their bodies.

   There goes the bus of tomorrow toward which we can
   no longer run and wave, so we sit and teach

   ourselves how to speak without sounds. We sit
   by our animals and stare into their eyes

   like vowels. We sit among our little piles of objects
   next to windows, but no one comes, so we push our faces

   against the orange glass and listen, listen, listen
   till the trees stuff red cotton into our ears.