英文诗词:Pietà

莉落老师

英文诗词:Pietà

  by Steve Scafidi

  Before she is turned away

  for the last time in the moment

  before the new world begins

  harrowing her like a field

  and the sun and moon disappear

  and the stars and the houses

  suddenly become illustrations

  in a book no longer to be

  believed burning to ashes—

  before the earth beneath her

  rises up through her body

  slowly, every green cell

  yellowing in the aftermath—

  just before this begins and

  it begins constantly over

  and over in the secret nucleus

  of mothers quietly humming

  at every second continuously

  she breathes the odor of honey,

  his hair still the odor of honey.