处理过程--琳达.帕斯顿

四十多天的探访之后，
四十多天看不见的光线
把你的身体变成明亮如闪光灯泡的东西
他们把你释放进这个世界，

那里四十多天，四十多夜
都几乎没下雨，你的方舟是一部SUV车
载着你沿着蜿蜒曲折的高速路来回
穿梭，每日都对它们产生损耗。

现在你又欣然接受了平凡之事--
这场小阵雪下到挡风玻璃上，
似乎其短暂
有特殊的意义--
或许一阵天使的羽毛纷纷飘落，

或我们要在庆祝仪式上
打开瓶塞的葡萄酒，
它的兄弟们在有强烈泥土芳香的
地下室里等着
你再一次逃走了。
After forty visits, after forty
invisible rays transformed
your body into something
as incandescent as a flashbulb,
they release you into

the world, where it hardly rained
those forty days, those nights, where
your ark was an old SUV shuttling you
back and forth along meandering
highways, taking their daily toll.

Now you embrace the ordinary again—
this small snow shower on the windshield,
which seems in its brevity
to have special meaning—
a shower of angel feathers perhaps,

or the bottle of wine we will
uncork in celebration,
its brothers waiting in a basement
redolent of the earth
you’ve once again escaped.
“Course of Treatment” by Linda Pastan from Insomnia. © Norton, 2015.