文章基本信息

标题：View from a Flag.
作者：Hutchinson, Chris
期刊名称：ARC Poetry Magazine
印刷版ISSN：1910-3239
出版年度：2012
期号：December
语种：English
出版社：Arc Poetry Society

摘要：

 View From a Flag     I'm on the roof, looking down.    Although the night is old, I've never been more awake    To visions and sounds. A furnace kicks against the wall.    Beneath the floor, children whisper. They are growing    Ponderously fat with sleep. A thread of milky light will split    Their mother's abdomen, a spark will wink, and the moving    Moment fan the rebel-cackle of the flames. I do no more    Than just repeat, I remind myself that images are images    Of images whose fountain source is dry as history's    Old ink. Soon this night will open, newly chaste.    I'll unfold and watch the children scatter from the blaze    Through bars of angry light, and across the cold    Obscurely starlit fields.

View from a Flag.

Hutchinson, Chris

View From a Flag

   I'm on the roof, looking down.
   Although the night is old, I've never been more awake
   To visions and sounds. A furnace kicks against the wall.
   Beneath the floor, children whisper. They are growing
   Ponderously fat with sleep. A thread of milky light will split
   Their mother's abdomen, a spark will wink, and the moving
   Moment fan the rebel-cackle of the flames. I do no more
   Than just repeat, I remind myself that images are images
   Of images whose fountain source is dry as history's
   Old ink. Soon this night will open, newly chaste.
   I'll unfold and watch the children scatter from the blaze
   Through bars of angry light, and across the cold
   Obscurely starlit fields.