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  Sunday

  by Angela Shannon

   It could have been the way the Southern man

   in his navy suit and skin rocked

   along the church wall, swaying to the tambourine

   like an old man wobbling to blues.

   Or the way Sister Nettie got the spirit

   all in her feet and behind, quick-stepping

   like an ant hill was under her toes,

   shaking her head back and forth in disbelief--

   Or the way Deacon Jones raised

   both hands like the police were there,

   and started pacing the pulpit--

   a foreign street--looking for Jesus.

   But something quick came over the church

   when Walter's voice slid to his navel

   and plucked a piece of umbilical cord,

   tugging the notes from generations gone.

   And a sister lost in the crowd screamed,

   like when children have their first babies,

   and screeching floated over the pews

   and took the congregation rocking

   Back to the first cry we made

   in this freedom-stealing country--

   the first shout on the auction block,

   and we tried to clap our way out of memory,

   to stomp out the sound like sparks of fire

   but it was already voiced (and the seer had said,

   this child would be different)。

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关键字:英文诗歌
生词表:
  • deacon [´di:kən] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.(教会的)执事 六级词汇
  • congregation [,kɔŋgri´geiʃən] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.集合;团体 四级词汇
  • auction [´ɔ:kʃən] 移动到这儿单词发声 n.&vt.拍卖 四级词汇


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