As I drive my parents home through the snow

当我冒着雪驾车将我父母送回家

their frailty hesitates on the edge of a mountainside.

他们孱弱的躯体在山坡边依依不舍

我隔着崖壁喊话

I call over the cliff

只有雪在回响。

only snow answers.

他们轻声谈论着

拖水、吃橘子

They talk quietly

和昨夜忘拿的孙儿相片。

of hauling water of eating an orange

他们一打开家门，身影随即消失。

of a grandchild's photograph left behind last night.

那棵橡树在林中倒下，穿过一里里寂静谁还能听见？

他们挨那么近坐着......好像是被雪摁在了一起。

When they open the door of their house they disappear.

And the oak when it falls in the forest who hears it through miles and miles of silence?

They sit so close to each other; as if pressed together by the snow.