1.
1.
如常降临的夏夜便是如此
This is what summer nightfall is like:
通姦的妇人走出露台
the adulteress comes onto the balcony
身上丝质的睡袍让众星的颤抖
in a silk nightgown that lets through
顺利通过，
the trembling of the stars,
一根树枝从鸟喙中坠落
a twig drops from the beak of a bird
鸟儿在它建巢之前就睡著了，
that falls asleep before it has built its home,
一个士兵把国旗降下
a soldier lowers the flag of the state
他口袋裡有一封母亲来信
with a letter from his mother in his pocket
在地球子宫裡进行的核爆实验
and atomic tests in the womb of the earth
悄悄地让死者复活。在那一刻有人
secretly revive the dead. At that moment someone
静静地解读拜占庭古乐的纽姆谱，＊
quietly interprets Byzantine neumes,＊
有人以普世真理之名
someone else falsifies the exoduses
伪造关于巴尔干和内战的出逃记。
of the Balkan and the civil wars
在工厂后院裡
in the name of universal truths.
被宣告无效的革命中的参与者的
In the factory yards
塑像睡去，
the statues of participants
在线条对称的坟墓上
in annulled revolutions sleep,
塑料花失去颜色
on the symmetrical graves
鲜花失去形状，
plastic flowers lose their colour
但我们与之告别的
and ordinary ones their shape,
这死者的安宁
but this peace of the dead
不是我们的。
we have parted from
is not ours.
2.
2.
在村庄裡有三个窗户亮着灯
算命的人只预见到
In the village with three lit windows
康复，而不是疾病。
a fortune-teller foresees only
浪花把瓶子抛得很高
recoveries, and not illnesses.
来装下整个海洋，
The waves throw up bottles enough
单程路标志牌上的箭头
to hold the whole sea,
指向 神，
the arrow on the one-way road sign
一个鱼夫撕下一小片天空
points to God,
当他把饵丝抛进河里，
a fisherman rips off a bit of the sky
有个穷孩子寻找小熊星座
as he casts his baited line into the river,
也寻找他希望来自的星球，
some poor child searches for the Little Bear
在有不在场证据的凶手门阶前面
and the planet he’d like to come from,
一根羽毛试图飞翔。
in front of the doorstep of the killer with an alibi
这就是平常夏夜的样子。
a feather attempts to fly.
城镇在月亮的红光裡燃烧
This is what usual summer nightfall is like.
那些消防梯似乎
The town combusts in the redness of the moon
通往天堂，即使那时候
and the fire brigade ladders seem
每个人
to lead to heaven, even then when
都在那裡
everyone
往下
is climbing
爬。
down
them.
＊纽姆谱是东方音乐一种早期的记谱法，出现于五线谱发明之前。
＊Basic elements of Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation