INVENTING YOU              by Kevin Ireland


if I were to forget
the way I think of you
break you to bits
jumble you up
and sweep away all sign of you
and then if I were to start
all over again
and invent you
with nothing more to work on
than a notion
of your waiting to be discovered
I would not approach the problem
by trying to make you solid
giving you shape
attaching so many yards
of pretended skin
to so much meat and bone

the museums are full
of lively examples
of that kind of solution
but when the attendants
are not looking
my touch detects stone

instead
I would take silence
and begin with one sound
then another
to fill first the air
and the seas and the forests
then the towns
with you softness
if I were to forget
the way I think of you
and then invent you
all over again
I would assemble you
from sigh and laughter
from half-words and half-cries
from heartbeat
the click of bone

breathing in and breathing out
from all sound of true love
even the rub the skin makes
touching in sleep





這篇詩....我總覺得蠻難解釋他的意思...
每個人讀起來的感覺都不大一樣....
希望大家可以寫下自己對這篇詩的看法 ^^
但最重要的還是enjoy =D

嗯...
大概看了一下，
還沒有什麼特別的感覺，
這應該是有片段描寫詩人對女子表達出自己感覺的詩吧?
我想我該是要多多空出時間來多讀點詩了~

Anyway,
Thank you for sharing ^_^