Adam Home from the Wars

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Adam Home from the Wars

Sean Bishop¹

Yes, when the orchard's dolled up in pastels

and the finches scrawl² cursive across the sky

and the big moon sags³ like a tit o'er the meadows,

I'll trade in my Glock for a pocket of dew.

And the wars will stop. And everyone

will do the dishes. And the lion

will sweetly go down on the lamb

as among the rifle casings the brambles

eject -- at last -- their thorns.

Once, on a bench by the river, the little ducks

seemed bread-sated and happy. I had my girl.

It was the Great Past Tense and everything was lovely.

Then, on the breeze: burnt spruce or a musk

of black powder and blood from a further field.

I made for my wound a poultice of wounds,

and the ones I wounded made poultices too.

We've come here this evening to give them to you.

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1 bishop
n.主教，（国际象棋）象
参考例句：
He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。 Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

2 scrawl
vt.潦草地书写；n.潦草的笔记，涂写
参考例句：
His signature was an illegible scrawl.他的签名潦草难以辨认。 Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.你漂亮的字体把我的潦草字迹比得见不得人。

3 sags
向下凹或中间下陷( sag的第三人称单数 )；松弛或不整齐地悬着
参考例句：
The bed sags in the middle, and is uncomfortable. 床的中间往下塌，很不舒服。 He sags his pants; doo rags and a stockin cap. 他穿着松弛的裤子。抹布一样的帽子。