文章基本信息

标题：For Doctor Joshua Sonett.
作者：Ball, Sally
期刊名称：Witness
印刷版ISSN：0891-1371
出版年度：2007
期号：December
语种：English
出版社：Witness

摘要：

 For Doctor Joshua Sonett     Like the hood of a car, he said,    referring to the chest    of my father, where he planned    in a year or so to break ribs    and fold open the cracked vessel    unconscious there, a station wagon    of a man on the table, long, long and    a lot like a station wagon but not    new plugs, new lungs.    The warm grayed withered ones    dropped in a bucket, a pan.    The body that caused my body to be,    the body split in order to be healed,    the body inside which his hands--

For Doctor Joshua Sonett.

Ball, Sally

For Doctor Joshua Sonett

   Like the hood of a car, he said,
   referring to the chest
   of my father, where he planned
   in a year or so to break ribs
   and fold open the cracked vessel
   unconscious there, a station wagon
   of a man on the table, long, long and
   a lot like a station wagon but not
   new plugs, new lungs.
   The warm grayed withered ones
   dropped in a bucket, a pan.
   The body that caused my body to be,
   the body split in order to be healed,
   the body inside which his hands--