Dyke

时间：2013-09-06 06:09:54

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Dyke¹

Robin² Becker

The word came after me, then hid each time

I turned to look at it.

It breathed in the hedge（树篱，障碍）. I could hear it bite

and snap the air.

I feared the woman with slicked-back hair

sitting on a bar stool,

her back to the dance floor, a beer in her hands.

Disco drove the word away

but it came back: Bulldyke, Bulldagger.

What did the word want

with me, and why this dread³（惧怕）, this desire, this

dangerous butch

striding through Kenmore Square

uncamouflaged?

Dyke had a spike⁴ in it, a cleated surge.

In leathers, the word leapt

18th century grillwork

on the Boston Common and led the parade

around the city,

the slow, snaking, joyful⁵, motorcade

of a new millennium⁶. First

I had to hate her;

then I had to hurt her; the rest of my life,

I ate from her hand.

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1 dyke
n.堤，水坝，排水沟
参考例句：
If one sheep leap over the dyke,all the rest will follow.一只羊跳过沟，其余的羊也跟着跳。 One ant-hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.千里长堤，溃于蚁穴。

2 robin
n.知更鸟，红襟鸟
参考例句：
The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。 We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

3 dread
vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧
参考例句：
We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。 Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。

4 spike
n.长钉，钉鞋；v.以大钉钉牢，使...失效
参考例句：
The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。 They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。

5 joyful
adj.欢乐的，令人欢欣的
参考例句：
She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments.她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。 They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion.他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。

6 millennium
n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世
参考例句：
The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。 We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。