文章基本信息

标题：Poem Beginning with a Line from Transtromer.
作者：Clay, Adam
期刊名称：New Orleans Review
印刷版ISSN：0028-6400
出版年度：2007
期号：December
语种：English
出版社：New Orleans Review

摘要：

 Poem Beginning with a Line from Transtromer     Here I come, the invisible man, perhaps employed    by something only the dead    can articulate in their oily view of the past    and their eagerness for a future, a future    they have forgotten even exists.    Here I go, lost in a game of chess     with the weather, a game of latitude    with the mast of a ship,    a game of searching gone black    by night. What I desire in the sleepy    folds of repetition--only a crumb.    May I for a moment be nervous     breath beneath the sky's slivered    blue? As if given an excuse to turn    my back on the horizon,    am I only a crow holding my flight    pattern turning away from violence    and all other kinds of weather?

Poem Beginning with a Line from Transtromer.

Clay, Adam

Poem Beginning with a Line from Transtromer

   Here I come, the invisible man, perhaps employed
   by something only the dead
   can articulate in their oily view of the past
   and their eagerness for a future, a future
   they have forgotten even exists.
   Here I go, lost in a game of chess

   with the weather, a game of latitude
   with the mast of a ship,
   a game of searching gone black
   by night. What I desire in the sleepy
   folds of repetition--only a crumb.
   May I for a moment be nervous

   breath beneath the sky's slivered
   blue? As if given an excuse to turn
   my back on the horizon,
   am I only a crow holding my flight
   pattern turning away from violence
   and all other kinds of weather?