Poems

Tick Check

蜱虫检查

An X marks the spot
Where a grape with teeth
Sucks up a black hole
In a Honey Bucket

一个X标记了地点 那里有颗长牙的葡萄 在蜜桶里 吸走一个黑洞

Sucks off a campsite in a sleeping bag

在睡袋里吸干一处露营地

Jumps from one cool blade of grass to another cool blade of grass

从一片清凉的草叶跳到另一片清凉的草叶

A living freckle
That knows your name and knows
That it is spring and feels a kind of imaginary privacy

一颗活的雀斑 知道你的名字 知道现在是春天 并感受到一种想象中的私密

Touched beneath your socks

在你袜子的包裹下被触碰

Touched beneath the elastic in your waistband

在你腰带松紧带的包裹下被触碰

Check
Behind your elbows
Check behind your knees

检查你的肘后 检查你的膝后

They don’t sing
They walk right in
You notice you are more than one and then there they are

它们不唱歌 它们径直走入 你察觉自己不止一个 然后它们就在那里了

A period at the end of a long sentence

一个长句末尾的句号

Teeth marks from a black sewing machine

一台黑色缝纫机留下的齿痕

Mom’s eyelashes

妈妈的睫毛

Brush it
Brush it
Brush it

刷掉它 刷掉它 刷掉它

The sprinklers play Bach partitas in the driveway between parked cars and abandoned Big Wheels

洒水器在车道上演奏巴赫的组曲 在停着的汽车和废弃的大轮玩具之间

I can feel a little pinch every once in a while

我能感觉到 每隔一阵子就有一阵轻微的刺痛

Inside they are full of other people’s blood and the evening breeze and wakefulness

它们体内 满是别人的血 晚风 和清醒

They seem to weigh nothing at all

它们似乎毫无重量