Even the Ohio Can Change

时间：2015-03-31 06:05:07

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Even the Ohio Can Change
Rick Campbell
 
 
The river I grew up on was rank 
 with oil. Shoreline stones 
 gleamed slick-blue and nothing 
 in the river was worth a slug 
 of scrap1 metal: carp and catfish, 
 sick, riddled2 with chemical blood. 
 
My river was for barges, 
 owned by US Steel, ARMCO, J&L. 
 They pumped it full of slag, 
 dripped and drained oil and gas 
 through a thousand hidden holes. 
 
Nothing good could come of it 
 except a living and life, 
 a whole valley's clinging dream. 
 The Indians who named it beautiful river 
 weren't wrong; how could they know 
 what would come, dark and sooty, 
 burning the sky, turning the earth 
 to mud and cinder3. 
 
Even in our terrible need 
 we couldn't kill it and the river 
 is coming back to river once again. 
 In the cold ruin of the Ohio's banks 
 muskies swim the secret paths below. 
 
We grow older, the river younger,
 and great fish smash into the air
 to swallow a caterpillar4
 fallen from a willow5 branch.

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1 scrap JDFzf     
n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废
参考例句：
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
2 riddled f3814f0c535c32684c8d1f1e36ca329a     
adj.布满的；充斥的；泛滥的v.解谜，出谜题(riddle的过去分词形式)
参考例句：
  • The beams are riddled with woodworm. 这些木梁被蛀虫蛀得都是洞。
  • The bodies of the hostages were found riddled with bullets. 在人质的尸体上发现了很多弹孔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 cinder xqhzt     
n.余烬，矿渣
参考例句：
  • The new technology for the preparation of superfine ferric oxide from pyrite cinder is studied.研究了用硫铁矿烧渣为原料，制取超细氧化铁红的新工艺。
  • The cinder contains useful iron,down from producing sulphuric acid by contact process.接触法制硫酸的矿渣中含有铁矿。
4 caterpillar ir5zf     
n.毛虫，蝴蝶的幼虫
参考例句：
  • A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.蝴蝶是由毛虫脱胎变成的。
  • A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。
5 willow bMFz6     
n.柳树
参考例句：
  • The river was sparsely lined with willow trees.河边疏疏落落有几棵柳树。
  • The willow's shadow falls on the lake.垂柳的影子倒映在湖面上。

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