文章基本信息

标题：Acoustic Shadows.
作者：Edwards, Brian (British editor)
期刊名称：War, Literature & The Arts
印刷版ISSN：1046-6967
出版年度：2012
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force Academy, Department of English

摘要：

 Acoustic Shadows  Gunshots strum the sky across the plain  hours after bullets lodge, and hush  invites a rendezvous with sound's mirage.  Applause deceives the horses like mirage  colludes with thirst. Fingers grasp the plain;  front-line whispers ricochet the hush  till prayers form in huddles. What will hush  this blue expanse of chaos when mirage  recedes, the air refracts, the sodden plain  breathes? The dead. The dead will hush the plain's mirage.

关键词：Battle casualties;Morality of war

Acoustic Shadows.

Edwards, Brian (British editor)

 Acoustic Shadows
 Gunshots strum the sky across the plain
 hours after bullets lodge, and hush
 invites a rendezvous with sound's mirage.
 Applause deceives the horses like mirage
 colludes with thirst. Fingers grasp the plain;
 front-line whispers ricochet the hush
 till prayers form in huddles. What will hush
 this blue expanse of chaos when mirage
 recedes, the air refracts, the sodden plain
 breathes? The dead. The dead will hush the plain's mirage.

BRIAN EDWARDS, an Englishman, lives in Japan and teaches at a private high school in Tokyo. He is a founding editor at After Literature, a UK charity established to develop and promote new writing.