Searchers 英文现代诗词

Searchers

by D. Nurkse

We gave our dogs a button to sniff,

or a tissue, and they bounded off

confident in their training,

in the power of their senses

to re-create the body,

but after eighteen hours in rubble

where even steel was pulverized

they curled on themselves

and stared up at us

and in their soft huge eyes

we saw mirrored the longing for death:

then we had to beg a stranger

to be a victim and crouch

behind a girder, and let the dogs

discover him and tug him

proudly, with suppressed yaps,

back to Command and the rows

of empty triage tables.

But who will hide from us?

Who will keep digging for us

here in the cloud of ashes?