精選英語詩歌-Annunciation

He has come from the garden, leaving
     no shadow, no footprint in the dew:
     They hold each other's gaze2 at the point
     of balance: everything streaming
     towards this moment, streaming away.
    A word will set the seed
     of life and death,
     the over-shadowing of this girl
     by a feathered dark.
     But not yet: not quite yet.
    How will she remember the silence
     of that endless moment?
     Or the end, when it all began --
     the first of seven joys
     before the seven sorrows?
    She will remember the aftersong
     because she is only human.
     One day
     she'll wake with wings, or wake
     and find them gone.