谁不爱

Who doesn’t love

玫瑰，谁

roses, and who

不爱黑暗池塘中

doesn’t love the lilies

小天鹅一般

of the black ponds

漂浮的

floating like flocks

睡莲，

of tiny swans,

以及热烈开放的

and of course, the flaming

凌霄花呢。

trumpet vine

蜂雀，像一个小小的绿色天使

where the hummingbird comes

飞来了，

like a small green angel, to soak

将它深棕色的舌头

his dark tongue

浸泡在幸福中——

in happiness -

谁不希望

and who doesn’t want

和它小马达似的心灵

to live with the brisk

一起轻快地跳动，

motor of his heart

像舒伯特那样

singing

歌唱，

like a Schubert

眼睛

and his eyes

四处观望，像阿尔勒的梵高那样

working and working like those days of rapture,

心醉神迷？

by Van Gogh in Arles?

看！几乎整个世界

Look! for most of the world

都在等待

is waiting

或者回忆——

or remembering -

几乎整个世界都处于

most of the world is time

我们不在其中的时刻，

when we’re not here,

我们尚未出生，或已死去——

not born yet, or died -

一束缓慢燃烧的火，

a slow fire

与我们所有聋哑、疯狂而盲目的兄妹们，

under the earth with all

一起呆在地底，

our dumb wild blind cousins

他们

who also

甚至不再记得

can’t even remember anymore

自己的幸福——

their own happiness -

看！我们

Look! and then we will be

将如苍白、冰凉的

like the pale cool

石头，永远

stones, that last almost

存在。

forever.