如果今日的你我只是尘埃，而尘埃自会升腾，

If we, as we are, are dust, and dust, as it will, rises,

那么你我将会升腾，尔后再度聚集

Then we will rise, and recongregate

在风中、在云间，化作它们的子息，

In the wind, in the cloud, and be their issue,

化为下落世界中下落的事物，然后闪落

Things in a fall in a world of fall, and slip

穿过挓开的细圆树杈和摩挲的冬青枝叶，

Through the spiked branches and snapped joints of the evergreens,

犹如白蚁以及白蚁以及它们的楚腰。

White ants, white ants and the little ribs.