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标题：Bougainville.
作者：Levin, Michael H. (American poet)
期刊名称：War, Literature & The Arts
印刷版ISSN：1046-6967
出版年度：2015
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of English

摘要：

 Bougainville (Solomon Islands, South Pacific, 1943-45 / 2010)     Thick-wristed vines have overtaken    craters where boys thrashed    and died, the screams of spilled guts    and incoming shells. It was the noise,    the blinding noise that killed.    Above white beaches tamarind    and jacaranda filter sun    that coils and hammers flat the day's    damp heat, while distant voices    falter, gasp, go still.    Strung round the globe such places lie,    idyllic tableaus now, while I    part easily cascades of    trumpet flowers. It is the turquoise    hour, the murmuring time    that slaughtered choices fill.

MICHAEL H. LEVIN is a lawyer, solar-energy developer and writer based in Washington DC. He has published poetry in more than 30 periodicals including Adirondack Review, Midstream and Poet Lore, and has received numerous journalism and poetry awards. His recent collection Watered Colors (Poetica) was a Washington Independent Review "Best Book" selection for May 2014. See www.michaellevinpoetry.com.

关键词：Humans and nature;Morality of war;Philippines (World War II);United States (World War II)

Bougainville.

Levin, Michael H. (American poet)

 Bougainville (Solomon Islands, South Pacific, 1943-45 / 2010)
    Thick-wristed vines have overtaken
   craters where boys thrashed
   and died, the screams of spilled guts
   and incoming shells. It was the noise,
   the blinding noise that killed.
   Above white beaches tamarind
   and jacaranda filter sun
   that coils and hammers flat the day's
   damp heat, while distant voices
   falter, gasp, go still.
   Strung round the globe such places lie,
   idyllic tableaus now, while I
   part easily cascades of
   trumpet flowers. It is the turquoise
   hour, the murmuring time
   that slaughtered choices fill.