I Walk from Steeple to Steeple
I Walk from Steeple to Steeple
Regan Good


You diagram promises by your advancements
but leave bad things behind -- germy wing.

(World like a large drum beaten by soft things.)

I've spun1 unlike the lilies without proper goals,
toiled in wrong ways, it was the wrong difficulty
I sought.

Stunning the newborn things, all
these babies baking in their brains or playing
in the fronds2 in their throes --

The steeples were needle-like in their insistence
that the answer was always up, yet, with gusto
one walks the paved streets under the boiling sun --

(We live in the world with the bird and the whale.)

Despite the hemlock3 on the hill; despite the crow --

I watched the movement of the birds exact diligence

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of no consequence but description,
heavenly description, of things fluted4 and feathered,
things flying liquid and high.
They cleave5 and cluster,
break then roll, corrosive6 mites7 infesting8 underwings,
their stained skin hidden from the whorl in my eye.

Behind my back -- the hooded9 rill of woods.

(Sun gavels the clouds; rain pounds the underdrum.)

Birds are the lilies. The will is the sickle10. Birdsong
over the Willsong, one whistles loudly on the bluestone,
especially through long rains, though most hotly in the sun.
One wears it as a crown -- the sun and its wreathing song.

(We are as in a big drum, cold, pale spring, the increments11 of an underwing.)

Above, birds flying in circles and common-seeming serpentines12.





1 spun

v.纺，杜撰，急转身

参考例句：


His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。 Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。



2 fronds

n.蕨类或棕榈类植物的叶子( frond的名词复数 )

参考例句：


You can pleat palm fronds to make huts, umbrellas and baskets. 人们可以把棕榈叶折叠起来盖棚屋，制伞，编篮子。 来自百科语句 When these breezes reached the platform the palm-fronds would whisper. 微风吹到平台时，棕榈叶片发出簌簌的低吟。 来自辞典例句



3 hemlock

n.毒胡萝卜，铁杉

参考例句：


He was condemned to drink a cup of hemlock.判处他喝一杯毒汁。 Here is a beech by the side of a hemlock,with three pines at hand.这儿有株山毛榉和一株铁杉长在一起，旁边还有三株松树。



4 fluted

a.有凹槽的

参考例句：


The Taylor house is that white one with the tall fluted column on Polyock Street. 泰勒家的住宅在波洛克街上，就是那幢有高大的雕花柱子的白色屋子。 Single chimera light pink two-tone fluted star. Plain, pointed. Large. 单瓣深浅不一的亮粉红色星形缟花，花瓣端有凹痕。平坦尖型叶。大型。



5 cleave

v．(clave；cleaved)粘着，粘住；坚持；依恋

参考例句：


It examines how the decision to quit gold or to cleave to it affected trade policies.论文分析了放弃或坚持金本位是如何影响贸易政策的。 Those who cleave to the latter view include many conservative American politicians.坚持后一种观点的大多是美国的保守派政客。



6 corrosive

adj.腐蚀性的；有害的；恶毒的

参考例句：


Many highly corrosive substances are used in the nuclear industry.核工业使用许多腐蚀性很强的物质。 Many highly corrosive substances are used in the nuclear industry.核工业使用许多腐蚀性很强的物质。



7 mites

n.（尤指令人怜悯的）小孩( mite的名词复数 )；一点点；一文钱；螨

参考例句：


The only discovered animals are water bears, mites, microscopic rotifers. 能够发现的动物 只有海蜘蛛、螨和微小的轮虫。 来自辞典例句 Mites are frequently found on eggs. 螨会经常出现在蛋上。 来自辞典例句



8 infesting

v.害虫、野兽大批出没于( infest的现在分词 )；遍布于

参考例句：


Crime and drugs are infesting the inner cities. 市中心充斥着犯罪与毒品。 来自辞典例句 They are mainly forest scavengers infesting damp, rotted wood. 它们主要是些森林食腐动物，多侵害潮湿腐朽的木材。 来自辞典例句



9 hooded

adj.戴头巾的；有罩盖的；颈部因肋骨运动而膨胀的

参考例句：


A hooded figure waited in the doorway. 一个戴兜帽的人在门口等候。 Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes. 黑眼睛的吉卜赛姑娘，用华丽的手巾包着头，突然地闯了进来替人算命。 来自辞典例句



10 sickle

n.镰刀

参考例句：


The gardener was swishing off the tops of weeds with a sickle.园丁正在用镰刀嗖嗖地割掉杂草的顶端。 There is a picture of the sickle on the flag. 旗帜上有镰刀的图案。



11 increments

n.增长( increment的名词复数 )；增量；增额；定期的加薪

参考例句：


These increments were mixed and looked into the 5.56mm catridge case. 将各种药粒进行混和，装在5．56毫米的弹壳中。 来自辞典例句 The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale. 兰氏温标的温度间距与华氏温标的相同。 来自辞典例句



12 serpentines

n.像蛇般蜷曲的，蜿蜒的( serpentine的名词复数 )v.像蛇般蜷曲的，蜿蜒的( serpentine的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：


These fearsome beasts have small cannons, comparable to serpentines, mounted on their backs. 这些恐怖巨兽背负著类似蛇炮的小型加农炮。 来自互联网 The Serpentine: Serpentines make excellent exercises for suppling the sides on the horse. 蛇形型路线，是很好的练习，帮助马匹柔软。 来自互联网
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