文章基本信息

标题：The War.
作者：Woo, Nancy Lynee
期刊名称：Confrontation
印刷版ISSN：0010-5716
出版年度：2016
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Long Island University, C.W. Post College

摘要：

 The War     We are all attracted to a soldier or    a suicide. Watch out     for a sweet tooth. I once heard a    woman could tell when she    was not seeing clearly but thought     she was. It might have been a rumor.    The hear is always on the hunt,    except when hibernating.     She walks    to the well to grab water.    We see her jug on her head.     We see her coarse black hair.    A cat's whisker is nothing if not    a life line. Soldiers or suicides.     Clean feet a sign of civility.     Someone always dies.     Inevitability cannot be tragic.    Enjoy the warm bath     while you can. And the shells. And    the birds. And especially the trees,    and the children. Let your guard     down once in a while. Forget even    what this poem    is about.

The War.

Woo, Nancy Lynee

The War

   We are all attracted to a soldier or
   a suicide. Watch out

   for a sweet tooth. I once heard a
   woman could tell when she
   was not seeing clearly but thought

   she was. It might have been a rumor.
   The hear is always on the hunt,
   except when hibernating.

   She walks
   to the well to grab water.
   We see her jug on her head.

   We see her coarse black hair.
   A cat's whisker is nothing if not
   a life line. Soldiers or suicides.

   Clean feet a sign of civility.

   Someone always dies.

   Inevitability cannot be tragic.
   Enjoy the warm bath

   while you can. And the shells. And
   the birds. And especially the trees,
   and the children. Let your guard

   down once in a while. Forget even
   what this poem
   is about.