抓住詩的尾巴

When she was growing up in rural Virginia, she would be out working in the field. She would like feel and hear a poem coming after her from over landscape, like thunderness train of air and would come bearing down on her over the landscape. She felt the coming. It was like shake the earth under her feet. She knew she only has one thing to do at that point. She ‘s like run like hell to the house. She’s been chased by the poem. She has to get a piece of paper and pen fast enough so when the thunder through her she can collect it and grab it on the page, and other times, she wouldn’t be fast enough, she would be running and running and she wouldn’t get the house, the poem would like trundle through her, she would miss it, and it would continue on to cross the landscape and looking for another poet. There’s a moment when she was almost miss it, she would be running to house, she’s looking for a piece of paper, and the poem passing through her. She grasp a pencil, just it’s going through, she would reach out another hand, and she would catch it, she would catch the poem by its tail, she would pull it backward into her body, transcribing on the pages. The poem would come up on the page perfect and intact, but backward, from the last word to the first.

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