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标题：Orphans - Poem
作者：Daniel Daly
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：1997
卷号：Sept 12, 1997
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

Orphans - Poem

Daniel Daly

   The guardian is asleep
   dogging the lacy upstairs rooms
   with his heavy, canine presence.
   His teeth drip like knives.

   We have been running the stairs,
   the closets and the storage areas,
   diving on dust in the basement
   accumulations of furniture,

   until we slip like fish
   into a tank of water
   into that sleep, his sleep
   where dreams proved cloudy,
   rainy-day, misted dreams
   until one clears like tap water
   let stand. We see ourselves

   plastered in the back of the van
   to ice cream, our eyes roiling
   our hair poking up straight,
   our mouths bleeding
   on the way with vanilla
   to nowhere north in particular.