Adrienne Rich: In the Evening 晚上

Three hours chain-smoking words

and you move on. We stand in the porch,

two archaic figures: a woman and a man.

The old masters, the old sources,

haven’t a clue what we’re about,

shivering here in the half-dark sixties.

Our minds hover in a famous impasse

and cling together. Your hand

grips mine like a railing on an icy night.

The wall of the house is bleeding. Firethorn!

The moon, cracked every which-way.

pushes steadily on.

Adrienne Rich 艾德里安娜·里奇（1929 - 2012）是当代美国具有影响力的诗人、散文家和女性主义者，著有《潜入沉船》等十几部诗集。她被称为“20世纪下半最有影响力的诗人之一”，并被认为是将“压迫妇女和女同性恋化为诗歌主题的引导者”。她的诗歌被广泛发表，并列入文学和女性研究学的必修课程中。