多年生植物--肯德拉.坦西亚

我童年时代家中的落地窗里
          满是门罗镇的杜鹃花，

每一年，六月四日的时候，赐给我们其初开的蓓蕾。
          丁香花开在每年四月

树篱上是连续开放的水乡花菜。
          我不在的时候，这些事情仍然发生。

并且，在院子边缘，我没怎么尽力，
            野生卷丹也正在绽放，

和连翘花纠缠在一起，
        就在树林开始的地方
The rhododendron in Monroe
         from the picture window of my childhood home,

that gave us, every year, its first bloom on the fourth
         of June. Lilacs every April,

a constant hedge of baby’s breath. These things
         still happen in my absence.

And, at the edge of the yard, where all my efforts cease,
         the wild tiger lilies are opening,

tangled in the forsythia,
         just where the woods begin.
“Perennial” by Kendra Tanacea from A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees. © Lost Horse Press, 2017. Reprinted with permission