英文的诗词：Lake Como

英文的诗词：Lake Como

　　Lake Como

　　by Nicholas Christopher

　　The searchlight of a February moon

　　at the end of the street

　　bare trees black railing

　　an eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple

　　that shadows the doorway

　　where the one-armed card shark squats

　　shuffling his deck on a milk crate

　　waiting for the No. 6 bus to discharge

　　the off-duty cop the seamstress

　　the drunken mechanic and the clerk on crutches

　　who pauses before his building to watch

　　the mechanic lose three dollars at blackjack

　　and then stiffly ascends the five flights

　　to his two rooms on a shaftway

　　hanging his coat on a hook

　　and sitting down at the table

　　on which this morning he placed

　　a soup bowl and spoon

　　a tin of crackers and the crossword

　　puzzle he had been laboring over

　　beneath the gaze of his late wife

　　her color photograph propped up in a small frame

　　a young woman in a boxy dress and felt cap

　　waving shyly by the edge of a lake

　　where over her shoulder beneath a clear sky

　　a sailboat rides the wind

　　passengers on the polished deck

　　gazing at the glowing mountain peaks

　　the cypresses lining the shore

　　and the pink palazzi with ancient gardens

　　these men and women in white

　　who seem to live upon the water

　　gliding among themselves oblivious to strife

　　and all else that wears a body down

　　some sipping from crystal goblets

　　others just drinking in the light