文章基本信息

标题：Colorado.
作者：Cluny, Claude Michel
期刊名称：World Literature Today
印刷版ISSN：0196-3570
出版年度：2005
期号：May
语种：English
出版社：University of Oklahoma

摘要：

 Colorado   Pure, the colors clang  outside the windows--  sham Indian orchestra.  Blue, blue sky like a tunic  Sunlight a long rain of tire  Profuse groves of golden trees. Rivers  of gray jade, infused with violence  by ochre stones.  Torrents. Tonal waters  silver waters, visible music. Bleached bones  of trees dead in their tracks.  Russet grass of twilight,  beard of the lone path  sheared off by night.  Rose fingernail of the Moon  risen in the East  --like a classical poem of yesteryear--  grates, punctuating the waning of time.  By the rime we reach Salt Lake City  we'll enjoy a millennial autumn delay.  Onboard the Denver & Rio Grande Western  Colorado   Les couleurs pures ferraillent  au-dela des vitres  faux orchestre indien.  Ciel bleu tunique. Bleu!  Soleil en long coup de feu  Profuses grappes d'arbres d'or. Rivieres  jade gris. L'ocre des pierres  infuse dans la violence  Torrents. Eaux tonales  eaux d'argent, musique visible. Os blancs  d'arbres morts debout.  Herbe rousse du couchant  barbe de la voie unique  qui se fait rase le soir.  Ongle rose de la Lune  qui l'orient indique  --comme autrefois un poeme classique--  crisse et marque ici le decroit du temps.  Nous aurons en gare a Salt Lake City  un millenaire automne de retard.  A bord du Denver & Rio Grande Western

Colorado.

Cluny, Claude Michel

Colorado

 Pure, the colors clang
 outside the windows--
 sham Indian orchestra.
 Blue, blue sky like a tunic
 Sunlight a long rain of tire
 Profuse groves of golden trees. Rivers
 of gray jade, infused with violence
 by ochre stones.
 Torrents. Tonal waters
 silver waters, visible music. Bleached bones
 of trees dead in their tracks.
 Russet grass of twilight,
 beard of the lone path
 sheared off by night.
 Rose fingernail of the Moon
 risen in the East
 --like a classical poem of yesteryear--
 grates, punctuating the waning of time.
 By the rime we reach Salt Lake City
 we'll enjoy a millennial autumn delay.

Onboard the Denver & Rio Grande Western

Colorado

 Les couleurs pures ferraillent
 au-dela des vitres
 faux orchestre indien.
 Ciel bleu tunique. Bleu!
 Soleil en long coup de feu
 Profuses grappes d'arbres d'or. Rivieres
 jade gris. L'ocre des pierres
 infuse dans la violence
 Torrents. Eaux tonales
 eaux d'argent, musique visible. Os blancs
 d'arbres morts debout.
 Herbe rousse du couchant
 barbe de la voie unique
 qui se fait rase le soir.
 Ongle rose de la Lune
 qui l'orient indique
 --comme autrefois un poeme classique--
 crisse et marque ici le decroit du temps.
 Nous aurons en gare a Salt Lake City
 un millenaire automne de retard.

A bord du Denver & Rio Grande Western

* Tulum, Uxmal, and Chichen Itza--all Mayan cities located in the Yucatan Peninsula--are famous for their architectural ruins from the Late and Post Classic periods (700-1200 A.D.). Tikal, another ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, thrived from 800 B.C. to 900 A.D. [DS]

Sources: "Colorado" (1989), from Oeuvre poetique, vol. 1 (La Difference, 1991), 60. Copyright [c] 1991 by Editions de la Difference. Extracts from "La Memoire du sel," Autre Sud 26 (Sept. 2004), 22-23. Copyright [c] 2004 by Claude Michel Cluny, Autre Sud, and Editions Autre Temps.