Axes

斧子

After whose stroke the wood rings,

树木在它的砍伐之下鸣响，

And the echoes!

回声传来！

Echoes traveling

群马般地

Off from the center like horses.

回声从中心扩散开来。

The sap

树液

Wells like tears, like the

像眼泪涌流，像池水

Water striving

努力使

To re-establish its mirror

自己重新平复如镜

Over the rock

在坠落和

That drops and turns,

翻滚着的石头之上，

A white skull,

一颗白骷髅，

Eaten by weedy greens.

被丛生的青草吞噬。

Years later I

多年之后我

Encounter them on the road—-

在路上遇见它们——

Words dry and riderless,

词语枯竭，没了骑手，

The indefatigable hoof-taps.

不倦的马蹄踏踏作响，

While

而

From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars

从那深潭之底，固着的星簇

Govern a life.

支配一生性命。