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McGuire's Twenty-Five Minutes

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McGuire's Twenty-Five Minutes

Benjamin S. Grossberg

... as he was executed with a combination of drugs

never before tried in the U.S.

A portable dark. Maybe a cave inside

a syringe, that mind wanders. A dark

of deep, deep in the earth, or well wide

of it -- a starless dark. Or a dark of work:

of files to be read, a self-erasing weight

in which mind unknows itself. An ocean

dark: trench¹ in a drug cocktail². The freight

of mind embedded³ in its silt⁴. Or station

dark: arctic night, buried under snow --

lone researcher, coffee mug, forgets his voice.

Or a dark of watching dark: advancing slow

in clenched⁵ fists, in gasps⁶ that make no noise.

Some dark. But how, now, to pry⁷ it open --

bring light -- to see what we let happen?

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1 trench
n./v.(挖)沟，(挖)战壕
参考例句：
The soldiers recaptured their trench.兵士夺回了战壕。 The troops received orders to trench the outpost.部队接到命令在前哨周围筑壕加强防卫。

2 cocktail
n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物
参考例句：
We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。 At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

3 embedded
a.扎牢的
参考例句：
an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术 He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。

4 silt
n.淤泥，淤沙，粉砂层，泥沙层；vt.使淤塞；vi.被淤塞
参考例句：
The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.湖里几乎快被淤泥和植物填满了。 During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.每年河水泛滥时都会在田野上沉积一层淤泥。

5 clenched
v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。 She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上，以掩饰其颤抖。来自《简明英汉词典》

6 gasps
v.喘气( gasp的第三人称单数 )；喘息；倒抽气；很想要
参考例句：
He leant against the railing, his breath coming in short gasps. 他倚着栏杆，急促地喘气。来自《简明英汉词典》 My breaths were coming in gasps. 我急促地喘起气来。来自《简明英汉词典》

7 pry
vi.窥(刺)探，打听；vt.撬动(开，起)
参考例句：
He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。 We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。