Zoo

时间：2016-02-16 05:02:14

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Zoo

Mark Irwin

In her old age, Mother enjoys going to the zoo

as the trees let loose their yellow leaves

and stand like furniture among the grazing animals

who stare from a long distance. Often I think

this could be a story she's telling me as we walk

through doorways¹ catching² fire, or sit on a stone bench

growing larger and more cold, watching the little clouds

our words make, and in the distance -- buffalo³, built

of the earth, with their horns made of rock, their coats

of dried grass. Only drama without movement

is beautiful, said Simone Weil, speaking of Lear, and soon

everything's ablaze⁴ and we're running toward youth,

and the skyline of a city, its fossil, while animals, shrieking,

stampede past us, and mother calls out their names,

zebra, buffalo, gazelle, ever so clearly, then enters

into shadow with them, that diorama we call memory.

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1 doorways
n.门口，门道( doorway的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群，从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。来自辞典例句 He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。来自辞典例句

2 catching
adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住
参考例句：
There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。 Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。

3 buffalo
n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛
参考例句：
Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。 The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

4 ablaze
adj.着火的，燃烧的；闪耀的，灯火辉煌的
参考例句：
The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.晚上，那条主要街道灯火辉煌。 Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.森林有时因雷击而起火。