詩歌賞析：A Path Between Houses

　　A Path Between House

　　Where is the dwelling place of light?

　　And where is the house of darkness?

　　Go about; walk the limits of the land.

　　Do you know a path between them?

　　Job 38：19-20

　　The enigma of August.

　　Season of dust and teenage arson.

　　The nightly whine of pickup trucks

　　bouncing through the sumac

　　beneath the Co-Operative power lines，

　　country & western booming from woofers

　　carved into the doors. A trace of smoke

　　when the wins shifts，

　　spun gravel rattling the fenders of cars，

　　the groan of clutch and transaxle，

　　pickup trucks， arriving at a friction point，

　　gunning from nowhere to nowhere.

　　The duets begin. A compact disc，

　　a single line of muted trumpet，

　　plays against the sirens

　　pursuing the smoke of grass fires.

　　I love a painter. On a new canvas，

　　she paints the neighbor's field.