In the dawn's early light, in the the biggest snow of the year

在黎明昏暗的光线中，在当年最大的一场雪中，

Two blue-dark deer stood in the road, alerted.

两只蓝黑色的獐鹿站在路上，神色警觉。

They had happened into my dimension

我刚到那里的一瞬间

The moment I was arriving just there.

它们碰巧进入我的视野。

They planted their two or three years of secret deerhood

它们把二、三年来鹿的秘密生涯

Clear on my snow-screen vision of the abnormal

清晰地置于奇谲的雪花屏幕前，

And hesitated in the all-way disintegration

在全面崩溃的景象中犹豫

And stared at me. And so for some lasting seconds

盯着我瞧。有好几秒盯着我

I could think the deer were waiting for me

我想它们在等待我

To remember the password and sign

记起口令，发出信号

That the curtain had blown aside for a moment

一瞬间幕帷给吹开了

And there where the trees were no longer trees, nor the road a road

在树不成树，路不成路的地方

The deer had come for me.

獐鹿向我走来了。

Then they ducked through the hedge, and upright they rode their legs

接着它们弯身穿过篱围，伸直腿

Away downhill over snow-lonely field

走下山坡，越过孤寂的雪地

Towards tree dark - finally

走向黑黑的树——最后

Seeming to eddy and glide and fly away up

似乎是又滑又溜，一路飞奔

Into the boil of big flakes.

飞入大雪片的旋涡，

The snow took them and soon their nearby hoofprints as well.

雪淹没了它们，很快也淹没了近处的蹄印

Revising its dawn inspiration

雪把黎明的灵感

Back to the ordinary.

修复为雪景。