相遇倪志娟 译

A Meeting玛丽·奥利弗


她走进黑暗的泥沼
She steps into the dark swamp
那漫长等待的尽头。
where the long wait ends.

神秘光滑的包裹
The secret slippery package
落入杂草。
drops to the weeds.

她倾斜着长长的脖子,舔它
She leans her long neck and tongues it
疲惫而轻缓地呼吸着
between breaths slack with exhaustion

过了一会儿,它站起来,变成一个和她相似的
and after a while it rises and becomes a creature
生物,但是要小得多。
like her, but much smaller.

现在有两个她。她们一起走着
So now there are two. And they walk together
像树下的一个梦。
like a dream under the trees.

六月初,田边
In early June, at the edge of a field
开满密密麻麻的粉色和黄色花
thick with pink and yellow flowers

我遇见她们。
I meet them.
我只能凝望。
I can only stare.

她是我曾见过的
She is the most beautiful woman
最美的妇人。
I have ever seen.

她的孩子跳跃在花丛中,
Her child leaps among the flowers,
天空的蓝挂在头顶
the blue of the sky falls over me

像丝绸,花儿们燃烧着,而我希望
like silk, the flowers burn, and I want
再活一次,从头开始,
to live my life all over again, to begin again,

彻底
to be utterly
而狂野。
wild.


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