..by Galway Kinnell
The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying.
They prefer the blood of people who can imagine themselves entering
other life-forms.
These are the ones the mosquito sings to in the dark and the deer fly
orbits and studies with yellow eyes.
In the other animals the desire to die comes when existing wears out
existence.
In us this desire can come too early, and we kill ourselves,
or it many never come, and we have to be dragged away.
Not many are able to die well, not even Jesus going back to his father.
And yet dying gets done--and Eddie Jewell coming up the road with
his tractor on a flatbed truck and seeing an owl lifting its wings
as it alights on the ridgepole of this red house, Galway, will
know that now it is you being accepted back into the family
of mortals.
這是我這學期正在上的課 Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry 課本裡的一首詩.
多唸幾遍, 還蠻有意思的! 聽詩裡流出來的音樂, 換作你,你會配上哪首曲子?
我沒太多音樂背景, 可是應該是蘇格蘭電影裡常有的那種, 簡單管樂器吹奏的小調吧..我會這樣選. 配上有小雨的陰濕的丘陵景色.
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