1

  1

雨，落下，如镜子

Rain fell as a glass

破碎，

breaks,

某种东西突然到处都是。

something suddenly everywhere at the same time.

  2

      2

活得像一幅画

To live like a painting

同时以超过一个角度看进去——

looked into from more than one angle at once—

能与门廊看对眼，

eye to eye with thedoorway,

直到发根，

down at the hair,

向上到你沾着泥巴的双脚。

up at your owndusty feet.

  3

       3

“这是你的房子”，

我走进时，

“This is your house,”

我的小鸟之心对我的蟋蟀之心说。

said my bird heart to my heart of the cricket,

and I entered.

  4

       4

幸福者看到的只有幸福，

活着的只看到活的，

The happy see only happiness,

年少的只看到年少的，

the living see only life,

the young see only the young,

正如恋人们相信

他们醒来，身边总是一个沉溺爱河中的人。

as lovers believe

they wake always beside one also in love.

  5

        5

无论我翻页翻得多勤，

我总是以那本书

However often I turned its pages,

最后两行结束：

I kept ending up

as the same two sentences of the book:

有人的生命是：在。别的是：无在。

The being of some is: to be. Of others: to be without.

然后我仰身后躺，睡在瑞典语中。

Then I fell back asleep, in Swedish.

  6

一只觅草的羊，不令人印象深刻，是因为有山，

         6

不是因为绕身的苍蝇。

A sheep grazing is unimpressed by the mountain

  7

but not by its flies.

对还没发生的事

         7

怀着悲哀——

The grief

一扇从里面关上的门。

of what hasn’t yet happened—

草的重量

a door closed from inside.

在隔开

一只蚂蚁五条腿的沉默

The weight of the grass

从中穿行而过

dividing

an ant’s five-legged silence

  8

walking through it.

什么是毛巾，什么是水，

         8

变化着，

尽管我们三者，

What is the towel, what is the water,

只有毛巾可以在阳光中头朝下。

changes,

though of we three,

  9

only the towel can be held upside down in the sun.

“我是曾经。”

        9

话说得既无自怜又非赞扬。

这种尊严我们给予仓枭、

“I was once.”

自我、牡蛎。

Said not in self-pity or praise.

This dignity we allow barn owl,

ego, oyster.