文摘精选《初放的玫瑰》
作者：艾勒•赛道夫 来源：《意林》杂志
那些初放的玫瑰，把我带回理智。 一切暴怒，在房后长满水藻的池塘 被我放下水，像纸船一样。 起初苍白，进而桃粉，后来血红。 修剪它们，你可能很残忍。 可能很残忍，而我需要这种残忍。 顶着红尖尖的翠枝 这些绝不是茨冠。 既不预兆什么，也不暗示什么。 一旦给养，它们便会生出枝丫： 一个夏季能长两茬。 一茬有紫罗兰和果香，另一茬 燃起烈焰，草坪上一簇翻滚的唇瓣。
My first roses brought me to my senses. All my furies, I launched them like paperboats in the algaed pond behind my house. First they were pale, then peach andblood red. You could be merciless trimming themback. You could be merciless and I needed that. Emerald green with crimson tips, these were no crowns of thorns. They would not portend nor intimate. But if you fed them they’d branch out: two generations in a single summer. One had a scent of fruit & violet,the other blazed up, a flotilla of lips on thelawn.
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