Botany

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Botany
Sarah Holland-Batt
 
 
After the rain, we went out in pairs 
 to hunt the caps that budded at night: 
 wet handfuls of waxtips and widows, 
 lawyer's wigs1, a double-ringed yellow. 
 
We shook them out onto gridded sheets, 
 the girls more careful than the boys, 
 pencilled notes on their size and shape, 
 then levelled a wood-press over their heads. 
 
Overnight, they dropped scatter2 patterns 
 in dot-and-dash, spindles and asterisks 
 that stained the page with smoky rings, 
 blush and blot3, coal-dust blooms. 
 
In that slow black snow of spores 
 I saw a woodcut winter cart and horse 
 careen off course, the dull crash 
 of iron and ash, wheels unravelling4. 
 
All day, a smell of loam5 hung overhead. 
 We bent6 like clairvoyants7 at our desks 
 trying to divine the message left 
 in all those little deaths, the dark, childless stars.

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1 wigs 53e7a1f0d49258e236f1a412f2313400     
n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
  • Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白
2 scatter uDwzt     
vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散
参考例句：
  • You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
  • Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。
3 blot wtbzA     
vt.弄脏（用吸墨纸）吸干；n.污点，污渍
参考例句：
  • That new factory is a blot on the landscape.那新建的工厂破坏了此地的景色。
  • The crime he committed is a blot on his record.他犯的罪是他的履历中的一个污点。
4 unravelling 2542a7c888d83634cd78c7dc02a27bc4     
解开，拆散，散开( unravel的现在分词 )； 阐明； 澄清； 弄清楚
参考例句：
  • Nail head clamp the unravelling of nail exteriorize broken nails and clean. 钉头卡钉，拆开钉头取出碎钉并清洁。
  • The ends of ropes are in good condition and secured without unravelling. 缆绳端部状况良好及牢固，并无松散脱线。
5 loam 5xbyX     
n.沃土
参考例句：
  • Plant the seeds in good loam.把种子种在好的壤土里。
  • One occupies relatively dry sandy loam soils.一个则占据较干旱的沙壤土。
6 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的
参考例句：
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
7 clairvoyants 929faf5be0e09890bff5b7c3210ee308     
n.透视者，千里眼的人( clairvoyant的名词复数 )
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