All right. Try this,

好吧。那就不妨

Then. Every body

试试吧。每一位

I know and care for,

我认识和我关心的，

And every body

还有每一位

Else is going

将要在

To die in a loneliness

我想象不出的孤独

I can't imagine and a pain

和我无法体会的疼痛中

I don't know. We had

死去的。我们

To go on living. We

只能活下去。我们

Untangled the net, we slit

解开网，我们划开

The body of this fish

这条鱼的身体，

Open from the hinge of the tail

从鱼尾的分叉处

To a place beneath the chin

一直划到下巴，

I wish I could sing of.

但愿我能为它歌唱。

I would just as soon we let

我宁愿我们能让

The living go on living.

活着的继续活下去。

An old poet whom we believe in

我们信奉的一位老诗人

Said the same thing, and so

说过同样的话，于是

We paused among the dark cattails and prayed

我们在幽暗的香蒲丛中停下来，

For the muskrats,

为麝鼠祈祷，

For the ripples below their tails,

为它们尾巴下的涟漪祈祷，

For the little movements that we knew the crawdads were making

为水底的细微响动祈祷，我们知道是蝲蛄在动，

under water,

为我老表的右手腕祈祷，他后来当了警察。

For the right-hand wrist of my cousin who is a policeman.

我们为那个护猎员的昏花老眼祈祷。

We prayed for the game warden's blindness.

我们为回家的路祈祷。

We prayed for the road home.

我们吃了这条鱼。

We ate the fish.

一定有种很美妙的东西在我体内，

There must be something very beautiful in my body,

我真的很开心。

I am so happy.