又一年将尽，处处留下了

Another year gone, leaving everywhere

气味浓郁的残余：藤蔓，落叶，

its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves,

吃剩的果实

the uneaten fruits crumbling damply

在阴影中腐烂消融， 

in the shadows, unmattering back

撤离这夏日的

from the particular island

孤岛，这无处可寻的此刻。

of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere

除了腐烂，在脚下， 

except underfoot, moldering

在不可知的

in that black subterranean castle

黑暗神秘的地下城堡中——根和带壳的种子

of unobservable mysteries - roots and sealed seeds

和水的渗透。当时间的轮盘

and the wanderings of water. This

艰难地转动，譬如，当秋天

I try to remember when time"s measure

终于闪现，喧闹着，像我们那样渴望

painfully chafes, for instance when autumn

停驻，我试图记住这些——

flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing

明亮的景物变换更替，在这转瞬即逝的

to stay - how everything lives, shifting

草场中，万物如何

from one bright vision to another, forever

进入永恒。

in these momentary pastures.