才去了银行, 取出仅有的nickle. 想到了Ted Kooser的at the office early

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Rain has beaded the panes
of my office windows,
and in each little lens
the bank at the corner
hangs upside down.
What wonderful music
this rain must have made
in the night, a thousand banks
turned over, the change
crashing out of the drawers
and bouncing upstairs
to the roof, the soft
percussion of the ferns
dropping out of their pots,
the ballpoint pens
popping out of their sockets
in a fluffy snow
of deposit slips.
Now all day long,
as the sun dries the glass,
I'll hear the soft piano
of banks righting themselves,
the underpaid tellers
counting their nickels and dimes.

诗人早上走进高楼里的办公室，坐在椅子上， 往窗外看去。他的眼光停留在玻璃上的水珠上。这些水珠是昨夜那场雨留下的。他看到的不只是水珠，还有水珠里阳光反射下的银行。银行是马路对面角落的银行。由于反射， 诗人看到的是很多倒立的银行。这时，诗人发挥了他的神奇的想象。他想象这场雨在夜间谱写的乐章:上千个银行倒立过来，硬币从抽屉里哗啦啦跑了出来，跳跃到楼上，到房顶；蕨树从花盆掉下的敲打，圆珠笔从笔座里砰砰蹦出来，蓄单象绒毛似的雪那样飘飘起舞。当然，想象归想象。还要回到现实。现实对诗人也是一种音乐。太阳把玻璃晒干时，诗人听到了一种柔和的琴声:那些银行把自己正立起来的声音，还有低薪的出纳员们数着五分和一角硬币的声音。

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• 谢谢你解析Ted Kooser的英诗[At the Office Early]。 -婉蕠- ♀ 给 婉蕠 发送悄悄话 婉蕠 的博客首页 (68 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 15:45:50

• good that you learned something from it:) -bearsback- ♂ 给 bearsback 发送悄悄话 bearsback 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:39:26

• 是否愿意继续你的精彩专业的[英诗赏析]？我一定认真学。 -婉蕠- ♀ 给 婉蕠 发送悄悄话 婉蕠 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 21:42:32

• haha -bearsback- ♂ 给 bearsback 发送悄悄话 bearsback 的博客首页 (38 bytes) () 03/24/2010 postreply 09:08:47

• 回复：haha -婉蕠- ♀ 给 婉蕠 发送悄悄话 婉蕠 的博客首页 (82 bytes) () 03/24/2010 postreply 09:17:32

• Great poem.imaginative,simple yet beautiful. such a joy to read. -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ 给 戏雨飞鹰 发送悄悄话 戏雨飞鹰 的博客首页 (187 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 18:15:57

• 这好像是我读的第一首英文自由体诗。时间过得真快， -bearsback- ♂ 给 bearsback 发送悄悄话 bearsback 的博客首页 (68 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:23:42

• your poetry is wonderful. you are so gifted, i mean it. -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ 给 戏雨飞鹰 发送悄悄话 戏雨飞鹰 的博客首页 (149 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:50:33

• 谦虚使人进步， 骄傲使人落后 -bearsback- ♂ 给 bearsback 发送悄悄话 bearsback 的博客首页 (44 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:55:46

• 噢，我这里还有４个quarters 可以先借您应急。不用急着还。 -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ 给 戏雨飞鹰 发送悄悄话 戏雨飞鹰 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 18:24:41

• sweetie you are rich. I really need -bearsback- ♂ 给 bearsback 发送悄悄话 bearsback 的博客首页 (34 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:14:32

• haha, this one is so good. but -戏雨飞鹰- ♀ 给 戏雨飞鹰 发送悄悄话 戏雨飞鹰 的博客首页 (52 bytes) () 03/23/2010 postreply 20:43:48

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