文章基本信息

标题：Crane Fly.
作者：Muradyan, Luisa
期刊名称：West Branch
印刷版ISSN：0149-6441
出版年度：2015
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Bucknell University

摘要：

     It was days before I saw him again    body broken on a golden dish    legs propped in the air.    He stayed there a long time.    I peeled a pear in his honor    left the rind in the sink    and watched the fruit flies    hover like hummingbirds.    And I think of my crane fly    legs too long wings like a cheap kite wobbling    and unsure of the wind.    Like the man I watched for twenty years    find his way down the staircase every day    legs crushed against the bed frame, the air he stood on,    my crane fly, my King Midas.

关键词：Animal symbolism;Cranes (Birds);Human-animal relationships

Crane Fly.

Muradyan, Luisa

    It was days before I saw him again
   body broken on a golden dish
   legs propped in the air.
   He stayed there a long time.
   I peeled a pear in his honor
   left the rind in the sink
   and watched the fruit flies
   hover like hummingbirds.
   And I think of my crane fly
   legs too long wings like a cheap kite wobbling
   and unsure of the wind.
   Like the man I watched for twenty years
   find his way down the staircase every day
   legs crushed against the bed frame, the air he stood on,
   my crane fly, my King Midas.