Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks are very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like strengths or squinched,
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry-eating in late September.
I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy black blackberries
to eat blackberries for breakfast,
the stalks are very prickly, a penalty
they earn for knowing the black art
of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them
lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
like strengths or squinched,
many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps
which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
in the silent, startled, icy, black language
of blackberry-eating in late September.
黑莓为食
踩九月的尾，出游，沉醉
于黑莓，饱满、熟透而冰凉
早餐，以黑莓
茎满刺，作罚，
为妖术，生长黑莓，它们的罪
站立其中，我，
提茎至口，那粒，最熟的黑莓，
不等邀请，掉落舌上
如文字，文字异类
如力，或扭动的，
众多字母，堵塞，在单个音节内
挤出，拱开，我，大肆挥霍
那黑色语言，沉默、惊愕、冰凉
属于黑莓，在九月尾
于黑莓，饱满、熟透而冰凉
早餐，以黑莓
茎满刺，作罚，
为妖术，生长黑莓，它们的罪
站立其中，我，
提茎至口，那粒，最熟的黑莓，
不等邀请，掉落舌上
如文字，文字异类
如力，或扭动的，
众多字母，堵塞，在单个音节内
挤出，拱开，我，大肆挥霍
那黑色语言，沉默、惊愕、冰凉
属于黑莓，在九月尾
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