银杏，杨树，针栎，香枫，鹅掌楸：

Ginkgo, cottonwood, pin oak, sweet gum, tulip tree:

我们的情绪像叶子生长

our emotions resemble leaves and alive

按照我们滋养的形状

to their shapes we are nourished.

你是否感觉到忧伤沿着一棵高大的挪威枫

Have you felt the expanse and contours of grief

的边缘伸展出轮廓？

along the edges of a big Norway maple?

你是否曾在橙色的闪光

Have you winced at the orange flare

烧焦一株山茱萸卷曲的线条时畏缩？

searing the curves of a curling dogwood?

我曾在空中看到被砍伐的岛屿，

I have seen from the air logged islands,

每一个都有砂石路形成枝杈网络,

each with a network of branching gravel roads,

还有某个时刻感到纯粹的愤怒，山杨黄。

and felt a moment of pure anger, aspen gold.

我看见沙丘鹤在开阔之地移动，

I have seen sandhill cranes moving in an open field,

鹤群中唯有一只白色的高声鸣叫。

a single white whooping crane in the flock.

我也曾在无名的叶子边缘旅行，

And I have traveled along the contours

此处

of leaves that have no name. Here

空气潮湿，光芒冷酷。

where the air is wet and the light is cool,

我感知别人未曾说出口的想法，

I feel what others are thinking and do not speak,

我知道一棵糖枫叶脉里的喜悦，

I know pleasure in the veins of a sugar maple,

我活在一片新叶的边上。

I am living at the edge of a new leaf.