A man reaches close

从女孩的耳朵里

and lifts a quarter

一个男人缓缓靠近

from inside a girl’s ear,

并举起25美分，

from her hands takes a dove

她的手里擒着一只鸽子

she didn’t know was there.

不知道在那里。

Which amazes more,

什么更让她吃惊，

you may wonder:

你可能疑惑：

the quarter’s serrated murmur

四分之一的锯齿状杂音

against the thumb

对抗拇指

or the dove’s knuckled silence?

还是一只鸽子用指关节轻叩的寂静？

That he found them,

他发现了它们，

or that she never had,

或者她从未拥有过，

or that in Portugal,

或者在葡萄牙，

this same half-stopped moment,

这相同的半停的时刻，

it’s almost dawn,

几乎是黎明，

and a woman in a wheelchair

还有一位坐着轮椅的女人

is singing a fado

整唱起法朵歌

that puts every life in the room

整个房间都充满活力

on one pan of a scale,

在一架天平上，

itself on the other,

另一面，

and the copper bowls balance.

铜碗也保持平衡。