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He made up his mind not to pay taxes.
他決心不再繳稅。
Trying broad margin meditation,
試著放寬冥想的界限，
I sit in the sunny doorway of my casita, amidst the yucca and loquats and purple rain birches.
我坐在陽光下的門廊邊坐在絲蘭花，枇杷和紫色的雨樺樹間。
Some I planted, some volunteered.
一些是我種的，一些是自行長出來的。
Birds, chickadees, finches, sparrows, pairs of doves, a pair of towhees, and their enemy, the jay.
鳥兒，山雀，燕雀，麻雀，成對的鴿子，一對紅眼雀，還有它們的天敵松雞。
Hawk overhead. Barn swallows at twilight.
老鷹在頭頂上飛來飛去，暮色中谷倉上棲息著燕子。
I know: Thoreau sat with notebook and pencil in hand.
梭羅拿著本子和筆，靜靜的坐著。
Days full of writing.
日復一日的寫作。
A wonderful thing that I could accomplish in this long poem
在這首長詩里我能做到的美妙的事
is that I found a way to end some of the stories that I started in my first book The Woman Warrior.
就是找到了結我在第一本書《女戰士》里開頭的一些故事。
I am going to read to you from the very beginning of The Woman Warrior
我會從《女戰士》的最開頭開始讀給你們聽
in which a curse was placed on our family and...
在開頭，我的家庭被下了詛咒……
Well I will just read it and this will give you a... the background for something that I will do in the long poem.
我會讀給你們聽，給你們提供一些長詩的相關背景。
