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第3章 Terminus

I

When I hoked there, I would find

An acorn and a rusted bolt.

If I lifted my eyes, a factory chimney

And a dormant mountain.

If I listened, an engine shunting

And a trotting horse.

Is it any wonder when I thought

I would have second thoughts?

II

When they spoke of the prudent squirrel's hoard

It shone like gifts at a nativity.

When they spoke of the mammon of iniquity

The coins in my pockets reddened like stove-lids.

I was the march drain and the march drain's banks

Suffering the limit of each claim.

III

Two buckets were easier carried than one.

I grew up in between.

My left hand placed the standard iron weight.

My right tilted a last grain in the balance.

Baronies, parishes met where I was born.

When I stood on the central stepping stone

I was the last earl on horseback in midstream

Still parleying, in earshot of his peers.

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