这些树令人惊叹：每一株

These are amazing: each

都与邻居接连，仿佛言谈

Joining a neighbor, as though speech

化作一场凝止的表演。

Were a still performance.

因为机缘的安排

Arranging by chance

你我相遇，犹如这清晨

To meet as far this morning

与尘世游离却依然

From the world as agreeing

与之切合，恍惚间

With it, you and I

你我便成为它们

Are suddenly what trees try

试图晓示我们：

To tell us we are:

它们存在于此便足以

That their merely being there

包含蕴意；你我很快

Means something; that soon

便会抚触、相爱、释怀。

We may touch, love, explain.

令人欣慰的是如此的亲和

And glad not to have invented

并非虚妄，我们正置身其间：

Such comeliness, we are surrounded:

一种静寂已充满声响，

A silence already filled with noises,

一张帆布已然浮现

A canvas on which emerges

彼此应和的笑容、一个冬晨。

A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.

置于一片迷离的光中，移动，

Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,

我们的日子披着这般缄默，

Our days put on such reticence

这些音色似乎是它们自足的辩护。

These accents seem their own defense.