Fame

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Derek Walcott – Poetry


This is Fame: Sundays,
an emptiness
as in Balthus,

cobbled alleys,
sunlit, aureate,
a wall, a brown tower

at the end of a street,
a blue without bells,
like a dead canvas

set in its white
frame, and flowers:
gladioli, lame

gladioli, stone petals
in a vase. The choir's
sky-high praise

turned off. A book
of prints that turns
by itself. The ticktock

of high heels on a sidewalk.
A crawling clock.
A craving for work.



"Fame" from THE ARKANSAS TESTAMENT by Derek Walcott.
Copyright © 1987 by Derek Walcott.
Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
All rights reserved.

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Poem selected by Lars Rydquist, head librarian,
Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy.

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cobbled alleys,
sunlit, aureate,
a wall, a brown tower

鹅卵石铺就的小径
在日光下，一片金华
还有那墙壁，那褐色的塔

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