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folk tale

chelsea woodard

for nonny hogrogian

in the story, i remember a hungry young fox

rendered in pastels. he has stolen

from a strict-mannered woman in town, his tail's been cut off, his lot

cast to repay her: stomach still swollen

with her guernsey cow's milk, his head hung

as he ¹ the sad route she has mapped

for him. in the story, i remember bright sun

glaring, the fox ² and tailless, his tongue lolling, lapping

at air, his shame-path dry and sorrowful.

and reading, i knew the author had lived

in our house -- rust-colored ³, fall-

wormed, ⁴ rose ⁵, frost, pewter-halled air.

and in the book, every page held a trade: a pail

bartered for rare, lazuli ⁶, a brown-speckled egg

for milled grain, straw for the ⁷ pulling

the ⁸. and i knew that each time, the fox had begged

for their pity -- a sack of clean down, a gold coin, a gift --

and that he'd at last made it back, the cold pail

handle ⁹ in his teeth, milk sloshing the step

of the stern woman's house. and i pictured the blood-matted tail

handed back to him, dragged over our slab-granite walk,

smelled the freezing ground

swelling -- stumbled with apples, damp now, half rotten --

the author's fingers rust-smudged from the work,

mine ¹⁰ with the chalk dust we found

decades later on baseboards and rimed sills of doors --

the fine powder set into skin, each ¹¹ history

heart-learned, unwritten.

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1
n.跋涉，长途疲劳的步行( trudge的名词复数 )
参考例句：
she trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. 她吃力地跋涉，schlepps、trains、drags、trascines重荷。来自互联网 matvey, who has not tasted food or drink all day, trudges up the hill again. 玛特威从一大早起就什么也没吃过，什么也没喝过，这时候却又爬上坡去。来自互联网

2
（常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦）耸肩弓身的，伏首前倾的
参考例句：
he sat with his shoulders hunched up. 他耸起双肩坐着。 stephen hunched down to light a cigarette. 斯蒂芬弓着身子点燃一支烟。

3
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 )；（照相机的）快门
参考例句：
the shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。 the shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。

4
adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常动词rattle的现在分词
参考例句：
this book is a rattling good read. 这是一本非常好的读物。 at that same instant,a deafening explosion set the windows rattling. 正在这时，一声震耳欲聋的爆炸突然袭来，把窗玻璃震得当当地响。

5
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的
参考例句：
she stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。 they wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。来自《简明英汉词典》

6
n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链
参考例句：
a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链 beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。

7
n.骡子，杂种，执拗的人
参考例句：
a mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.骡子是母马和公驴的杂交后代。 he is an old mule.他是个老顽固。

8
n.犁，耕地，犁过的地；v.犁，费力地前进[英]plough
参考例句：
at this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。 we will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后，我们将马上耕田。

9
v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
he clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。 she clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上，以掩饰其颤抖。来自《简明英汉词典》

10
弄脏；玷污；涂抹；擦上
参考例句：
the children had smeared mud on the walls. 那几个孩子往墙上抹了泥巴。 a few words were smeared. 有写字被涂模糊了。

11
adj.细薄的，稀薄的，空洞的
参考例句：
he has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。 the air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。

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