First Words
Phillip B. Williams
A storm and so a gift.
Its swift approach
lifts gravel1 from the road.
A fence is flattened2 in
the course of the storm's
worse attempt at language --
thunder's umbrage3. A tree
is torn apart,
blown upward through a bedroom
window. A boy winnows
through the pile
of shards4 for the sharpest parts
from the blown-apart
glass. He has
a bag that holds found edges
jagged as a stag's
horns or smooth as
a single pane5 smashed into
smaller panes6 that he sticks
his hand inside
to make blood web across
his acheless skin flexing
like fish gills
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they cannot make.
He wants to feel
what his friends have felt,
the slant7 of fear on their faces
he could never
recreate, his body born
without pain. When his skin's
pouting8 welts
don't rake a whimper
from his mouth, he runs
outside, arms up
for the storm, aluminum
baseball bat held out
to the sky
until lightning, with an electric
tongue, makes his viscera
luminescent;
the boy's first word for pain
is the light's
new word for home.
1 gravel
n.砂跞；砂砾层；结石
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We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。 More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
2 flattened
[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的
参考例句：
She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。 I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
3 umbrage
n.不快；树荫
参考例句：
Everything gives umbrage to a tyrantny.所有事情都使专制君主生气。 She took umbrage at my remarks about her hair.我对她头发的评论使她很不高兴。 作文能力提升，就来易优作文,https://www.euzw.net
4 shards
n.（玻璃、金属或其他硬物的）尖利的碎片( shard的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Eyewitnesses spoke of rocks and shards of glass flying in the air. 目击者称空中石块和玻璃碎片四溅。 来自辞典例句 Ward, Josh Billings, and a host of others have survived only in scattered shards of humour. 沃德、比林斯和许多别的作家能够留传下来的只是些幽默的残章断简。 来自辞典例句
5 pane
n.窗格玻璃，长方块
参考例句：
He broke this pane of glass.他打破了这块窗玻璃。 Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.他们呼出的水气，在冰冷的窗玻璃上形成一层雾。
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6 panes
窗玻璃( pane的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The sun caught the panes and flashed back at him. 阳光照到窗玻璃上，又反射到他身上。 The window-panes are dim with steam. 玻璃窗上蒙上了一层蒸汽。
7 slant
v.倾斜，倾向性地编写或报道；n.斜面，倾向
参考例句：
The lines are drawn on a slant.这些线条被画成斜线。 The editorial had an antiunion slant.这篇社论有一种反工会的倾向。
8 pouting
v.撅（嘴）( pout的现在分词 ) 易优作文网，中小学学生学作文的好网站（https://www.euzw.net）
参考例句：
The child sat there pouting. 那孩子坐在那儿，一副不高兴的样子。 来自辞典例句 She was almost pouting at his hesitation. 她几乎要为他这种犹犹豫豫的态度不高兴了。 来自辞典例句
